{"id":148620,"date":"2025-09-17T00:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148620\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T00:59:14","slug":"fox-sports-ceo-eric-shanks-wont-comment-on-tom-bradys-conflict-of-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/148620\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks won&#8217;t comment on Tom Brady&#8217;s conflict of interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday night, the Tom Brady conflict of interest that had been hiding in plain sight for months moved to the front burner, when Tom Brady couldn\u2019t hide from being in plain sight of ESPN cameras while in the Raiders\u2019 coaching box. It has become the story of the day and, coincidentally, Fox CEO Eric Shanks appeared earlier in the day at the Front Office Sports \u201cTuned In\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Ryan Glasspiegel of FOS about Brady\u2019s dual roles for Fox and the Raiders, Shanks had nothing to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/frontofficesports.com\/greg-olsen-tom-brady-fox-raiders\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Progress%20in%20ESPN-MLB%20Talks&amp;utm_content=Progress%20in%20ESPN-MLB%20Talks+CID_1ac1de5014b8626ffd27ab103eac61f7&amp;utm_source=FOS%20Daily%20Newsletter&amp;utm_term=Greg%20Olsen%20on%20Tom%20Bradys%20Raiders%20Role%20More%20Power%20to%20Him\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Not gonna answer that<\/a>,\u201d Shanks said, via David Rumsey of FrontOfficeSports.com. \u201cIf there\u2019s a conversation that needs to be had after last night, we\u2019ll have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no conversation to be had, because it\u2019s obvious the NFL <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nfls-statement-on-tom-brady-badly-misses-the-point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">doesn\u2019t want to have one<\/a>. The league made this mess when it approved 11 months ago Brady\u2019s acquisition of a piece of the Raiders, despite his 10-year, $375 million arrangement with Fox. To do an about-face now would be to admit that they screwed the pooch previously.<\/p>\n<p>And so the best play for everyone will be to say as little as possible \u2014 and to wait for the next bright, shiny object to roll down the pro football assembly line. It\u2019s coming in only two nights, when the Bills host the Dolphins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday night, the Tom Brady conflict of interest that had been hiding in plain sight for months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-148620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}