Tony Romo helping Tom Brady prepare for Fox broadcasting gig

Tom Brady is approaching his new job as the top NFL analyst for Fox in much the same way he did at quarterback. He’s going to know everything. That’s why he picked up the phone and called Tony Romo.

Like Brady, Romo is also a retired NFL quarterback, albeit one with seven fewer Super Bowl rings. Romo could be a good reference for Brady. Romo retired from the Dallas Cowboys after the 2016 season. Then CBS immediately hired him to be the network’s lead NFL analyst for the upcoming season. They moved Phil Simms to the Sunday studio show to make way for Romo in the booth.

Romo recently talked about the chats he was having with Tom Brady.

“Just two buddies talking football,” Romo told 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. I think it was a genius decision by him to wait a year coming out and prepare himself. He’s going to do a great job. I think he’s going to be outstanding.”

Richard Deitsch, who covers media for The Athletic, wrote these observations about Brady and how the legendary quarterback is approaching his training for a new profession.

Over the last year, I have spoken with many people who were in production meetings with Brady when he was a player. They were impressed by his ability to communicate football concepts in a clear way and said he was opinionated in those meetings. They described him as someone who could be very funny and occasionally profane and came off like a normal person within a not-so-normal career and life.