What Tom Brady is learning as he prepares for broadcasting career

Retired quarterback Tom Brady has been spending football Sundays as a full-time fan while also preparing to become Fox's lead NFL analyst next year. 

"I’m taking it all in," Brady said about his football viewing habits during the latest edition of his "Let's Go!" SiriusXM show and podcast, per Jaclyn Hendricks of the New York Post. "I’m trying to actually listen to a little bit from a broadcaster standpoint and how they’re calling the game, you know, paying attention more to, I’d say, the broadcasting element of it, the pageantry of it rather than, I would say, the nuances and the technicalities of the game."

Brady and Fox agreed to a 10-year deal reportedly worth $375M in 2022 before the seven-time Super Bowl champion retired from playing "for good" this past February. Some have suggested Brady will never call a game for any network amid speculation that he could attempt one last comeback, but Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated noted in July that the future Hall of Famer planned "to spend a good chunk of time in the fall" studying NFL and other sports broadcasts. 

Brady insisted as recently as last week he won't un-retire for a second time. 

"There’s so much more context when you’re watching [and] you have this TV and they show every replay," Brady added about what he's noticed while watching NFL games from home this season. "On the field, you don’t see any of that. You’re seeing everything ground level. I think when you’re a fan, you see obviously a lot, you hear a lot. The commentators are saying a lot. You have the score right there, you have the timeouts listed, everything’s right there for you. It’s not necessarily like that when you’re a player." 

Brady wants to become a limited partner of the Las Vegas Raiders and reportedly can call games for a network even if he has a direct relationship with a franchise. Some may still say that TB12 could change his mind about playing if an advertised championship contender loses a starting quarterback at any point this season, but it sounds like he has unofficially started his post-playing career.