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By Matt Audilet
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When Tom Brady takes the booth for Sunday's NFC Championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks, it will mark the final game of his second season as the lead analyst for Fox.
Brady is approaching the end of the second season of his 10-year, $375 million broadcasting partnership with the network. And according to Fox's lead NFL producer Richie Zyontz, the all-time great NFL quarterback has no plans of stopping anytime soon.
Despite his partial ownership of the Las Vegas Raiders and several other time-consuming business ventures, Brady is apparently committed to continue with Fox for "as long as he can."
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“I think he’s long-term for it, for sure,” Zyontz said in a recent interview with the Sports Business Journal. “You can’t predict the future and you can foresee unforeseen events. But I would say right now he’s committed to doing this as long as he can and he’s gotten damn good at it.”
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Brady faced criticism for his performance in the booth throughout the 2024 NFL season. But this past season, he made noticeable improvement to his skills as a broadcasting analyst.
“He knew exactly what to work on between Season 1 and Season 2, and most of it is just getting more comfortable with what a broadcast is. It’s what you can do and what you can’t do, and what I should prepare for and what I should pare down," Zyontz said."It’s obvious Tom loves football and loves what he does. Despite having all these different balls in the air, he is 110% into making the broadcast as good as possible."
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“We kind of knew Tom was not going to make a quantum leap last year between say Week 5 and 6 or Week 11 and 12, but give him a few months to figure it out," Zyontz added. "Because you’re talking about Tom Brady. And he figured it out between Year 1 and Year 2.”
Sunday's NFC Championship game will kickoff at 6:30 p.m. ET.
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