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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Raiders Coaching Search Fuels Tom Brady Conflict Questions

The seven-time Super Bowl winner is once more a lightning rod for questions about his dual roles as the Raiders look for a new head coach. 

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The 2024 NFL regular season has been over for less than 72 hours, and Tom Brady has already become a major storyline.

Less than three months after Brady was approved as a Raiders minority owner, complete with a series of special rules to account for his Fox Sports broadcasting role, the seven-time Super Bowl winner’s role in football operations is again quickly rising to the forefront.

The team fired head coach Antonio Pierce after one season, and in the midst of that, multiple reports quickly suggested Brady would have a sizable role in selecting Pierce’s successor. Among them was an Adam Schefter post saying Brady would be part of a “collaborative committee” to interview coaching candidates. 

Of course, that’s hardly a leap, as last month Raiders owner Mark Davis said he expected Brady to have a “huge” say in the team’s future direction. The rebuilding team finished 4–13 on the season, and it will have the No. 6 pick in the 2025 draft. 

The drama of the situation, however, stems largely from how this latest role aligns with his 10-year, $375 million broadcasting contract with Fox. The coaching search functions are not on the banned activities list along with other actions such as attending team practices or pregame production meetings. But they would appear to skirt closer to the line, and potentially raise another appearance of conflict—particularly if the Raiders pursue current Lions coordinators Aaron Glenn and Ben Johnson or Vikings defensive coordinator Brian Flores, and Brady is calling one or more of those teams’ playoff games in the coming weeks. 

In the meantime, Brady will also be part of Fox’s production of Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, an event that is not only the single largest event in all of U.S. television this year but an obvious corporate priority for Fox Corp. 

As those preparations continue, Brady’s performance in the booth has been widely deemed to have improved considerably in the second half of the season. 

Among the other potential candidates for the Raiders coaching job is former Titans head coach Mike Vrabel, also a former teammate of Brady’s in New England. Vrabel, however, will also reportedly interview for the Patriots’ vacant head coaching job, along with several others, and he is seen as a strong candidate there. 

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