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Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady gave high praise to his FOX Sports broadcast partner Kevin Burkhardt while discussing his improvement in his second season as the network's lead NFL analyst.
“I love Kevin,” Brady told the Athletic’s Andrew Marchand. “He’s like ‘a brother from another mother.’ We have a bond for life. He’s a world-class person. He is one of the most genuine, thoughtful, caring people I’ve ever been around. Not only that, he is so talented in what he does. He’s so embracing of everybody around him. It’s an amazing quality. I value Kevin as much as anybody I’ve ever worked with.”
Brady officially began his broadcasting career in 2024 and received some criticism early, with Marchand noting that he showed flashes of potential but lacked consistency, before making a change in the offseason, instead viewing his new job as if he was going through game film as a quarterback.
“I started to transition this year into, ‘Let me do more of how I did it as a quarterback,’ because that’s really where my comfort is,” Brady told Marchand. “As opposed to, ‘Let me try to prepare as a broadcaster.'”
Brady signed a 10-year, $373 million deal to join FOX Sports prior to the conclusion of his playing career, which was the most lucrative deal ever given to a sports media personality.
“To do this job right, you are going to have to want to talk, and you are going to want to talk about football,” said Brad Zager, FOX Sports network president, via the Athletic.
“This is Tom Brady, the broadcaster,” Zager said. “I think in Year 1, you were seeing Tom Brady, the Hall of Famer, the greatest quarterback of all time, getting comfortable broadcasting. Now, you are seeing Tom Brady, with all the accolades still, but as a broadcaster.”
Brady is the NFL's all-time passing leader for yards and touchdowns, as well as quarterback wins and Super Bowl victories. The seven-time Super Bowl champion is also currently a part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, the WNBA's Las Vegas Aces, the English soccer club Birmingham City FC and cricket's Birmingham Phoenix, as well as having investments in Major League Pickleball and E1 Series racing.