Tom Brady‘s role at FOX Sports may be in jeopardy already due to his minority stake in the Las Vegas Raiders.

A seven-time Super Bowl champion, Brady spent 23 years in NFL before hanging up his boots in 2022. He signed a 10-year, $375 million deal with FOX Sports to serve as lead NFL analyst. More recently, in October, NFL owners approved Brady’s purchase of a minority stake in the Raiders.

It is that deal with the Raiders which could impact his work on the mic with FOX, as the league slapped him with restrictions which, according to Bleacher Report, includes an inability to now access another team’s facility, watching their practice sessions, or attending production meetings for NFL broadcasts. Another restriction which could hamper his effectiveness as an analyst is that he’s, per BR, prohibited from criticizing match officials as well as other NFL teams.

Pro Football Talk insider Mike Florio explained the NFL’s tug-of-war with FOX over Brady on John Ourand’s ‘The Varsity’ podcast: “There’s an interesting theory that’s making the rounds in league circles, because there had been teams that have said to the league, ‘We want Tom Brady to be involved in the production meetings.’ And through that push and pull because the league says no, no, no, no, no exceptions even if you waive it. It doesn’t matter.”

Additionally, Brady may not want the role anymore, according to Florio. “There’s been a sense that maybe Brady doesn’t really want to do it anyway. Because you think of how thinly he’s spread, all of the different things that he’s doing, it may not be that he wants to be the absolute best at everything he does. It may just be that he wants us to think he’s the absolute best at everything that he does, and he’s doing a lot of different things and he’s making a lot of different appearances and he’s making a lot of money.

“Him being an owner and him being a broadcaster I think it keeps him from being the absolute best he could ever be. And it just always seemed beneath him – he’s Tom Brady… I just wonder how many years he’ll continue to do it.”

Tom Brady is now a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders

Tom Brady is now a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders ( 

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Brady’s stake in the Raiders is 5 percent as part of a deal worth $220 million, according to Sports Pro Media.

Together with restricting what he can say and do in his role at FOX, the ownership stake also prevents him from returning as a player. He had, up until recently, been linked with a move to Miami Dolphins. The Raiders play the Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday.