13-Year NFL Radio Career Ends Overnight As Voter Who Defied Consensus Gets Axed

In January, SiriusXM was still treating Jim Miller like a key piece of its NFL coverage. The company’s Super Bowl LX press materials listed the former NFL quarterback among the on-site talent in Santa Clara, scheduled to broadcast from the media center as part of wall-to-wall coverage of the league’s biggest week.​ When listeners tuned in, though, Miller was nowhere to be found. Instead of hearing his familiar back-and-forth with longtime co-host Pat Kirwan, they got David Moulton and Kirk Morrison filling in on air with no explanation from the network about why Miller had suddenly vanished from the schedule.​

The On-Air Announcement That Raised Eyebrows

The first real acknowledgment came the Monday after Super Bowl LX, when Kirwan finally addressed the missing voice that fans had been asking about. He told listeners that “as most of you have noticed, Jim Miller was not with us last week at the Super Bowl,” before delivering the news that Miller was “no longer a member of the SiriusXM team.” Kirwan thanked Miller for “many years” of contributions on Movin’ the Chains, but it was his closing line that set off alarm bells: “For the sake of Jim, we should leave this subject as it is and hope and pray that he gets on with his life and things go well.” The unusually somber tone only added to the mystery around why one of the channel’s longest-tenured voices was suddenly gone.​

Thirteen Years On A Flagship Show

Miller’s departure hits harder because of how central he’d become to SiriusXM’s NFL identity. A former quarterback who played eight seasons in the league, he carved out a second career on the airwaves after his playing days ended. Listeners came to know him as half of the Movin’ the Chains duo, a show he and Kirwan had been co-hosting since 2013. Over that span, Miller helped turn the show into a cornerstone of SiriusXM NFL Radio, a place where fans could count on detailed film talk, front-office insight, and unvarnished opinions.

From Bears Starter To Super Bowl Champion

Before he was a radio regular, Miller was a journeyman quarterback who experienced both the grind and the peaks of the NFL. He spent most of his career with the Chicago Bears, and 2001 was his signature season: an 11–2 record as a starter on a Bears team that finished 13–3 and won the NFC Central.​ Later, he backed up Tom Brady with the New England Patriots and earned a Super Bowl ring, a credential that added weight to his on-air analysis once he transitioned into broadcasting. For SiriusXM, that combination of playing pedigree and media experience made him an obvious choice to help anchor their NFL channel.

The MVP Vote That Turned Him Into A Lightning Rod

In addition to his radio duties, Miller held one of the most scrutinized jobs in football media: he was one of the 50 voters for the Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player award. That role remained mostly in the background until the end of the 2024 season, when his ballot became a national talking point. While eventual winner Lamar Jackson sat at or near the top of every other ballot, Miller had him all the way down at fourth. He ranked Josh Allen first, Saquon Barkley second, and Joe Burrow third, making him the lone voter out of 50 to keep Jackson outside the top two. As soon as those ballots were released, Miller’s name became synonymous with “the Lamar Jackson fourth-place vote,” and he was widely criticized by fans and commentators who saw his ballot as wildly out of step with the field.

A Network Under Intensifying Cost Pressure

Miller’s exit also lands in the middle of a serious belt-tightening push at SiriusXM. The company has been looking for hundreds of millions of dollars in savings while still paying for big-ticket content, including long-running sports rights deals. In early 2024, SiriusXM cut about 3% of its workforce, a move executives framed as a push for efficiency and a way to free up funds for content and technology investments. Later, the company outlined plans for roughly 200 million dollars in additional annualized cost reductions by the end of 2025, on top of an estimated 350 million dollars in efficiencies already implemented across 2023 and 2024.

Charlie Weis And A Pattern With Veteran Hosts

Miller is not the first established NFL Radio personality to disappear quickly from the lineup. In July 2024, former Notre Dame and NFL coach Charlie Weis left SiriusXM NFL Radio after about seven years co-hosting a show with Bob Papa. Weis later took public shots at the network, saying he was “treated poorly” by management and claiming that he was told to “pack my bags” before being offered only part-time work — a sequence he portrayed as not driven by performance. While his situation is separate from Miller’s, the two departures together sketch an unmistakable theme: experienced NFL voices can be here one day and gone the next, often without a clear explanation to the audience they spent years talking to.

The NFL Deal Outlasts The People

What’s not changing is SiriusXM’s relationship with the NFL. The satellite broadcaster’s rights deal includes every game and year-round coverage of tentpole events like the scouting combine, draft, and Super Bowl week, and it runs through at least Super Bowl LXI in 2027. In practical terms, that means the product marches on even as the people who helped make it a daily habit for subscribers cycle out. Miller’s absence, like Weis’s before him, is a reminder that rights packages can stay in place for years while the human beings who give those rights a voice are swapped out, reassigned, or quietly let go.

Silence, Speculation, And Job Security

So far, neither SiriusXM nor Miller has added any detail beyond Kirwan’s on-air announcement. There has been no public statement laying out whether this was a dismissal, a non-renewal, a mutual parting, or something else entirely; there has been no official explanation of what changed between the January Super Bowl press release and the moment Miller stopped appearing on the air. That silence leaves listeners to connect the dots themselves. They see a 13-year run on a flagship show, a high-profile, controversial MVP vote, a corporate mandate to squeeze out hundreds of millions in costs, and a veteran voice suddenly gone.

Sources:
Awful Announcing, Jim Miller no longer with SiriusXM NFL Radio, 2026-02-10​
NBC Sports / ProFootballTalk, Jim Miller leaves SiriusXM NFL Radio, 2026-02-11​
CBS Sports, NFL MVP: Here’s who gave Lamar Jackson a fourth-place vote as Josh Allen wins one of closest MVP races ever, 2025-02-06​
The Sporting News, Who is Jim Miller? What to know about NFL MVP voter who snubbed Lamar Jackson on ballot, 2025-02-06​
Deadline, SiriusXM Plans $200M In Cost Cuts In Pullback From Streaming And Auto Market, 2024-12-10​
IMDb News (aggregating Deadline), SiriusXM Plans $200M In Cost Cuts In Pullback From Streaming And Refocus On Auto Market, 2025-05​