Tom Bradys only complaint with start of Fox broadcasting career

Tom Brady’s ready to see some action again. No, not from under center.From up in the booth.“All these games I’ve gone into — I’ve done seven games now, I’ve had six blowouts, essentially, and the home team has only won one game,” Brady said on the “Let’s Go! podcast with Bill Belichick, Maxx Crosby, Peter King & Jim Gray.” “I can’t wait until I get a home team [playing] in a close game and there’s a lot of juice in the stadium.”The seven-time Super Bowl champion and 15-time Pro Bowler traded in the cleats for a headset in February 2023 after spending the previous 23 years taking snaps for the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 2024 campaign has been Brady’s first season working alongside play-by-play broadcaster Kevin Burkhardt as Fox Sports’ lead game analyst.In Weeks 1-3, the duo was following around the limping Cowboys.Those three contests included Dallas’ 33-17 trouncing of the Browns in Cleveland, a 44-19 trouncing by the New Orleans Saints in the Cowboys’ home opener, and then a 28-25 home loss to the Baltimore Ravens — though this one wasn’t nearly as competitive as the final score makes it out to be.Brady next made a visit to the ol’ stomping grounds in Tampa for what should have been an elite Week 4 matchup between the Eagles and the Bucs — except it wasn’t particularly close: Tampa Bay 33, Philadelphia 16. Brady and Burkhardt were dispatched to Santa Clara the following week where they called the Cardinals’ 24-23 Week 5 road upset over the 49ers.

Hope was restored.Momentarily. In Weeks 6 and 7, neither of their matchups — the Lions’ 47-9 demolition of the Cowboys nor the Chiefs’ 28-18 win over the 49ers — offered much to write home about.Brady, for now, is content to take them as he gets them.“It’s been really fun to sit and watch these games from the 50-yard line,” he said.

“Although I’d much prefer to be on the field playing, because it’s a lot more fun down...