{"id":541448,"date":"2026-03-24T01:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541448\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:58:07","slug":"are-the-raiders-and-tom-brady-on-the-same-page-about-his-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/541448\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Raiders and Tom Brady on the same page about his role?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Raiders minority owner Tom Brady embarks on his second full season with the team, an important question lingers.<\/p>\n

Are the Raiders and Tom Brady on the same page regarding his role?<\/p>\n

The Raiders have consistently created the impression that Brady has significant influence over the football operation. In January 2025, owner Mark Davis explained that he envisioned Brady to be \u201csomebody on the football [side] that I had been lacking having here in the organization,\u201d replacing Jon Gruden as \u201csomebody that I brought in and really expected to be that person on the football side that would bring stability to the organization<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, when coach Pete Carroll was fired after one season with the team, the Raiders announced that, “[m]oving forward, General Manager John Spytek will lead all football operations in close collaboration with Tom Brady<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last June, Brady provided a far more muted assessment of his job with the Raiders: \u201cI\u2019m just a limited partner, so Mark\u2019s the boss. And then Pete does his job and [Spytek] does his job and, I think, we trust them to make the right decisions. I\u2019m there as a great sounding board<\/a> for anything they want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

So which is it? Close collaborator or sounding board? When asked over the weekend about his role going forward, Brady filibustered his way through a non-answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that Brady is simply trying to avoid scrutiny for the franchise\u2019s ongoing struggles. It\u2019s also possible that the Raiders envision one role, and that Brady views himself in a different one.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s the latter, it will eventually become a point of contention. Brady was able to buy his chunk of the team at a below-market value based presumably on the fact that he\u2019ll grab an oar and row. If Brady is simply riding in the boat and periodically answering questions from the folks who are shouting instructions, the captain may begin to have seller\u2019s remorse.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not as if Davis can do anything about it, unless he\u2019s willing to admit that he made a mistake by assuming that Brady would be doing more than simply being a \u201csounding board\u201d for the organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Raiders minority owner Tom Brady embarks on his second full season with the team, an important question…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-541448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541448","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=541448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}