Even as Tom Brady goes through his first NFL postseason as a television analyst and prepares to call his first Super Bowl in that role, rumors about his future continue to be rampant.
That’s much to the dismay of Fox Sports.
Brad Zager, the company’s president of production and operations/executive producer, understands the spotlight Brady and the network are under. Still, Zager said the former quarterback, who retired two years ago after 23 seasons in the NFL and seven Super Bowl championships, is in it for the long haul.
“The whole group that said he would never be there then turned into, ‘He’s not going to stay there.’ It’s just a never-ending, merry-go-round of people trying to come up with the next narrative,” Zager said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Friday
“Tom has done nothing but be engaged with us every time he’s asked about broadcasting. When he was retired and getting in, getting ready, he talked about how excited he was for it, that he was 100%, and has never wavered on that. So the fact that there are people on that crew that have to read articles and narratives and predictions that Tom isn’t engaged does wear on you.”