Fox Sports executive Brad Zager criticized Tom Brady's alleged conflict of interest in calling this Saturday's divisional game between the Lions and the Commanders despite owning a portion of the Raiders.
Brady, who will be in the booth with play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt in Detroit, is part of the Raiders' decision-making team considering Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson for the team's head coaching vacancy.
Zager, president of programming and production for the network, said: told The Athletic It's “ridiculous” to claim that Brady would be in jeopardy by his off-mic duties with the Raiders.
“To me, questioning someone's integrity by saying they have a conflict of interest is ridiculous and shameful,” Zager said, according to the outlet.
Zager is a former ESPN college football analyst, Kirk Herbstreit, who played at Ohio State, and Fox's Joe Joe, who brings national MLB games to the network, in addition to his on-site play-by-play work with the Dodgers.・Compared with Mr. Davis.
“Is there a conflict of interest when Kirk Herbstreit calls Ohio State in the national championship game on Monday night?” Zager said. “Was there a conflict of interest in Joe Davis calling the Dodgers to the World Series?
“For someone to say there's a conflict of interest in that Tom Brady can't get in the booth and call a Lions game, there's a lot of potential in the Raiders' coaching search, maybe from Detroit, maybe from Washington,” he said. Because it could probably include people from any team” — since they haven’t hired anyone yet — I question his sincerity. It calls into question his professionalism. I don't understand it on any level. ”
The seven-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback is in his first season as Fox's No. 1 color analyst.
In October, Brady was officially confirmed as part-owner of the Raiders.
