Tom Brady’s Raiders stake could block his NFL access ahead of $375,000,000 job

Tom Brady, as said many times before, is a busy man even in retirement. He has his own wellness and clothing line, he owns and oversees his namesake electric boat racing team, and he is set to begin his record-breaking ten-year $375 million tenure as Fox's lead NFL analyst two weeks from now.

But his potential newest venture could severely limit how he can assess teams, players and coaches. ESPN's Seth Wickersham reported on Tuesday that if Brady buys into the Las Vegas Raiders, which he has been trying to do since last year, then he will have to accept the following restrictions that will be unique to him (i.e. other members of Fox's NFL crews will not be subject to them):

No access to opposing teams' facilities
No access to practices
No access to broadcast production meetings

He will also be banned from publicly criticizing game officials and other teams, and he must obey the league's gambling and anti-tampering policies.

There is precedent in this. His predecessor, Greg Olsen, started calling games for Fox when he was still playing in 2017. One of the games he called was the Los Angeles Rams against the Minnesota Vikings match, which the latter team believed was an "unfair advantage" for the tight end.

As of this writing, Brady will have the following eleven games on his docket:

Week 1: Dallas @ Cleveland
Week 3: Baltimore @ Dallas
Week 6: Detroit @ Dallas
Week 7: Kansas City @ San Francisco
Week 9: Detroit @ Green Bay
Week 12: San Francisco @ Green Bay
Week 13: New York Giants @ Dallas (Thanksgiving)
Week 14: Buffalo @ LA Rams
Week 15: Pittsburgh @ Philadelphia
Week 16: Pittsburgh @ Baltimore
Week 17: Dallas @ Philadelphia

Tom Brady's presence already having an effect on partner Kevin Burkhardt's pregame routine

When Tom Brady was first announced as Fox's lead analyst, the person most affected was Greg Olsen — who spent two seasons in that role before getting sent to the No. 2 team.

However, lead play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt also felt the aftereffects of working with the highly-accomplished former quarterback. He talked about this with sportscasters Erin Andrews and Charissa Thompson on their Calm Down podcast.

“Going to the field is going to require like an extra three hours. It is like a circus just going down. We were in LA doing a practice game, and it took us 40 minutes just to get down to the elevator just to the corner of the end zone. I had to take a [picture] of (him) and Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs in the middle of the field. It’s wild,” Burkhardt said.

Burkhardt and Brady will call the Dallas Cowboys-Cleveland Browns game on September 8 at 4:25 PM ET. Meanwhile, Olsen will call the 1 PM Pittsburgh Steelers-Atlanta Falcons game with Joe Davis.