CBS' Tony Romo predicts broadcasting future of Fox's Tom Brady

CBS lead NFL analyst and retired quarterback Tony Romo is one of the numerous individuals in the industry who has spoken with living legend Tom Brady about Brady becoming Fox's No. 1 league analyst beginning next season. 

"Just two buddies talking football," Romo recently said about his chats with Brady during a conversation with Richard Deitsch of The Athletic. "I’m excited for him. Tom will exhaust every resource to be as good at this as anybody. I think me and him have similar traits in that we’re going to try and work as hard as humanly possible to be as good as we can be at anything that we care about. He’s doing that." 

Suggestions that Brady may not be fully committed to ever calling games for Fox have been replaced by questions regarding how the seven-time Super Bowl champion will serve as the replacement for fan-favorite Greg Olsen in the network's main booth. 

It was reported over the weekend that Brady could officially become a limited partner with the Las Vegas Raiders before the end of March. Brady receiving the necessary approval for that investment should end any talk about the 46-year-old possibly playing another meaningful down of NFL football. 

Brady and Fox agreed to a 10-year deal reportedly worth $375M after the 2021 season, but he spent a "gap year" as a retired player who studied broadcasts of games. 

"I think it was a genius decision by him to wait a year coming out and prepare himself," Romo added about Brady. "He’s going to do a great job. I think he’s going to be outstanding." 

Back in February 2023, Deitsch reported that people who had "been in production meetings with Brady on the TV side" were "impressed by Brady’s ability to communicate football concepts in a clear way" and believed the future Hall of Famer "came off like a normal person who simply had an irregular, amazing career and life." 

In his latest piece, Deitsch wrote that he feels Brady the broadcaster may be better in year one "than you might think." 

Whether or not Brady learned what not to do while listening to Romo's calls of games shall be seen.