Tom Brady launched the Let\u2019s Go! podcast four years ago, in a format that typically consisted of one session with Brady and Jim Gray and a separate conversation between Gray and Larry Fitzgerald. Brady has since moved on from making weekly appearances.<\/p>\n
He was back for the latest episode<\/a>, with SiriusXM sending out quotes regarding his advice for Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes<\/a>, who suffered the same ACL injury Brady experienced in 2008.<\/p>\n I listened to the entire conversation, curious to hear whether Brady was asked any questions about the Raiders, the franchise in which he holds a minority stake \u2014 and by all appearances has a significant voice<\/a>. Currently, the Raiders are struggling; one day before, they capped an eight-game losing streak with a historically low 75-yard output on offense<\/a>. <\/p>\n And Brady got no questions about the Raiders. The Raiders weren\u2019t even mentioned. Not once.<\/p>\n Making the omission of any reference to the Raiders even more surprising was the fact that, as soon as the Brady portion of the show ended, Gray played his weekly discussion with Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby.<\/p>\n Plenty of fair, and largely innocuous, questions could have been posed by Gray to Brady about the Raiders. What\u2019s the problem with the team? What\u2019s the plan for the offseason? How close is this team to turning it around? What will you personally be doing to assist the turnaround?<\/p>\n Or Gray could have pressed Brady a little bit, notwithstanding their role as business partners in multiple pursuits. Gray didn\u2019t need to go full Pete Rose with Brady. Grady could have asked, for instance, \u201cHow much of this do you think you\u2019re personally responsible for?\u201d Or, \u201cDo you regret any of the decisions you made in the offseason?\u201d Or, \u201cYou seem to be spread pretty thin \u2014 do you think you either need to spend more time in the building or maybe allow someone else to be making the big decisions?\u201d Or, \u201cHow concerned are you that some of the team\u2019s great players will become frustrated with the situation and ask to be traded?\u201d<\/p>\n When it comes to his partial ownership of the Raiders, Brady has landed in an enviable sweet spot. If things go well, he\u2019ll definitely get credit. With things going very poorly, he is getting none of the blame. As emphasized by the fact that he wasn\u2019t even asked to say a single word about the single worst team in the NFL.<\/p>\n The fact that Brady said nothing about the Raiders says it all. He\u2019s keeping his distance from that dumpster fire. <\/p>\n But mark this down: If\/when things ever turn around, he\u2019ll be sharing in the victory lap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Brady launched the Let\u2019s Go! podcast four years ago, in a format that typically consisted of one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-354018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}