Reviews Are in On Brady’s Announcing Debut

Reviews Are in On Brady’s Announcing Debut

Tom Brady’s transition from arguably the NFL’s greatest quarterback to lead football analyst was less than GOAT.

Brady got his first "start" as the lead color analyst for FOX Sunday for the Dallas Cowboys’ 33-17 win over the Cleveland Browns.

The seven-time Super Bowl winner's first game was awkward at best and awful in many assessments. He is scheduled to be paid $375 million over the next ten years.

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“Tom Brady the TV analyst is a strangely colorless color man,” wrote the Guardian’s sports analyst Aaron Timms.

"Tom Brady isn’t a Super Bowl-caliber broadcaster — at least not yet," was the headline in the Washington Post. 

Sports Illustrated's River Wells was less than complimentary in "Tom Brady’s Broadcasting Debut Draws Negative Reviews."

"It looks like the former Buccaneers signal-caller has some work to do going forward," wrote Wells. "It isn't the end of days for Brady, of course, and he'll likely get better the more games he gets under his belt. But for now, it looks like the GOAT has a lot to improve on."

There were a number of reasons Brady got less-than-glowing reviews. 

"NFL fans thought Tom Brady sounded distractingly nervous during his Fox announcing debut," wrote Robert Zeglinski in USA Today. 

"While there’s no denying Brady’s vast wealth of football knowledge and acumen, he sounded nervous. Like an uncharacteristic type of nervous. So much so that his stilted, slow sentence structure became more distracting than the actual game," wrote Zeglinski. "I also say 'uncharacteristic' because we’re talking about a guy with nerves of steel who won so many big games over an illustrious NFL career."

 

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Not surprisingly, Fox put a positive spin on Brady's debut. 

"Tom Brady reveals what he's 'very happy about' after calling first NFL game," reported Fox. 

And it wasn't about his performance - rather, it was his physical well-being. 

"As Michael Strahan told me in the pregame, ‘You’re gonna wake up on Monday morning, and you’re not gonna be sore.’ That I’m very happy about,'" said Brady. 

Brady and play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt will be in Dallas when the Cowboys host the New Orleans Saints in Week 2.