Former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP
Tom Brady won’t make it two straight games of being in the booth to call a former team’s game.
The FOX analyst won’t be on the call when the New England Patriots take on the Miami Dolphins in Week 5, ESPN’s Mike Reiss reported Sunday, adding Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa being sidelined with a concussion coupled with the Patriots struggling on national television in Week 3 “took some national luster off the matchup.”
Brady returning to call a game for a team he won six Super Bowls with would have been a story line in itself. But the Patriots were blown out by the New York Jets on “Thursday Night Football” and haven’t played well in three games. The Dolphins, meanwhile, are playing their third-string quarterback after Tagovailoa and Skylar Thompson were both injured.
Both teams are 1-2 going into their respective Week 4 matchups.
Brady was on the mic for the Bucs’ Week 4 game against the Philadelphia Eagles and had the chance to respond to Baker Mayfield saying the team was “stressed out” with Brady in the locker room.
“I thought stressful was not having Super Bowl rings,” Brady said.. “There was a mindset of a champion that I took to work every day. This wasn’t daycare. If I was going to have fun, I was going to Disneyland with my kids. There’s a way to approach this game. And it’s with the with the right mindset, and try to push each other outside of our comfort zone, and great teammates do that. I had someone like (Rob) Gronkowski, had someone like (Mike) Evans. There’s high expectations for us. We’ve got to make sure we go out there and deliver. No apologies.”
Brady will likely call a Patriots game at some point during his 10-year contract with FOX.
