Tom Brady Talks Broadcasting Future amid Massive Fox Contract, Raiders Ownership

Tom Brady has built quite the business portfolio following his NFL retirement, but he has no plans to put his broadcast career on the back burner.

Fox Sports president Brad Zager said that Brady is in the broadcasting game "for the long haul."

"From the moment we signed Tom, no matter what was written or said, I have never gotten an indication from Tom that he is not into this for the long haul," Zager said, per Richard Deitsch and Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal. "For over a decade, we also heard about [Aikman] possibly taking a front office job. Rumors like that were always out there. You don't know what the future holds, but I can tell you right now that we have had no discussions with Tom that didn't involve him being here for a long time."

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Brady signed a massive 10-year, $375 million deal with Fox, and he has every intention of fulfilling it.

"I have a lot to prove to myself, to my teammates. I have a lot to prove to the executives," Brady said. "I want to go earn it and I don't want anything given to me. I hope they'll have me through the end of this contract. I love getting to enjoy the game. I love watching good football. There's such great camaraderie and chemistry we all have together. We have seminars. We have off-site retreats. We have text threads with all of us. It feels like a big family in so many ways, and I was not really expecting that when I decided to take the job."

Brady has a few limitations on what kind of access he gets to players and coaches due to his standing as a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, but he said that doesn't impact his ability to prepare for each game he calls.

"It's clickbait for people and it's something that people have no idea what they're really glomming onto," Brady said. "They just put it out there in the world and see what sticks. So to me, I just focus on what I need to do to be prepared. That's what I did as a player, and I go out there every week as a broadcaster and try to do the same thing."

Brady is entering his third season as an analyst with Fox, and he'll make his season debut on Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles host the Washington Commanders at 4:25 p.m. ET.