Tom Brady says he’ll start calling games for Fox in 2024
Tom Brady isn’t tackling his next career just yet.
The seven-time Super Bowl champion will wait until the fall of 2024 to begin broadcasting NFL games for Fox, he said Monday on the network’s “The Herd with Colin Cowherd.”
Brady, 45, announced his retirement from the NFL last week. Last year, Brady reached a deal with Fox to become an NFL analyst in the future, with Variety reporting his contract is worth $375 million over 10 years.
“Decompression’s important,” Brady said Monday. “You’re on this kind of really crazy treadmill/hamster wheel for a long time, loving the moment, loving the journey. At the same time, it’s a daily fight.”
Fox’s current lead analyst is Greg Olsen, a former NFL tight end from Paterson, N.J., who called games last season with Kevin Burkhardt.
Brady played 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, winning six Super Bowls and three MVPs with the team. He spent his final three years and won his seventh Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Brady originally announced plans to retire from the NFL after the 2021 season but returned less than two months later. He said last week that he’s now stepping away “for good.”
The former quarterback plans to use the time before his broadcasting debut to “really learn” and “become great at what I want to do,” he said on “The Herd.”
“Whether it was when I was drafted by the Patriots or signing in free agency with the Bucs, I wanted to be fully committed and I never wanted to let people down,” Brady said. “I think my biggest motivator was that. Even in the future, I want to be great at what I do, and that always takes some time.”
