What Tom Brady Said About Daniel Jones Is What Makes Him The Best Announcer in the NFL

NFL fans have had mixed reactions to the first year of Tom Brady in the Fox booth on Sundays—doing color commentary after 23 years of being the most famous football player in the country without ever really saying anything interesting.

Ever.

I, too, was unsure how I felt about Brady’s broadcasting work until the Giants Thanksgiving game against the Dallas Cowboys where Tom Brady gave his opinions on the Daniel Jones QB situation.

Daniel Jones was the worst QB not named Deshaun Watson this season so the Giants decided to come out of their bye week with Tommy DeVito as their new QB1.

Then New York signed Tim Boyle and moved Daniel Jones from the starting quarterback to the 4th string guy who sometimes had to go play pretend safety in practice.

So Jones took his ball and went home.

After being gifted a massive $160 million contract despite only being sort of good once in his 6 NFL seasons, DJ asked to be cut so he could play for a contender.

Tom Brady had some thoughts on Daniel quitting on the Giants:

Tom Brady’s take on Daniel Jones. pic.twitter.com/Sxxdoy6nfR

— Giants Daily (@NYGDaily) November 28, 2024

“I don’t know how that whole situation went down but to think that you’d ask for a release from a team that committed a lot to you is maybe different from how I would’ve handled that. I always felt I wanted to get the trust and respect of my teammates regardless of the situation, knowing that I was trying to do the best I could for the team because that was the most important thing.”

“There’s just some different things that happen in the NFL. Everyone makes individual choices. I think we all, at points in our career, face different challenges. I faced them in college, and some things didn’t go the way I wanted, but the people that mattered the most to me were the guys in the locker room. I showed up every day, I didn’t care if they asked me to be scout team safety, be scout team quarterback, I was gonna do whatever I could to help the team win.”

And just like that, Tom Brady has instantly become the best commentary guy in the league.

Greg Olson—the analyst who used to get Fox’s ‘Game of the Week‘ before being relegated to whatever game the Carolina Panthers are playing—may be exponentially better than Brady when it comes to explaining the details or minutia of an NFL play in a fun, creative, easily digestible way for us idiot fans while Brady awkwardly vomits up an assembly line of boring, overused cliches—but man, there’s no one in the game better at shitting on Daniel Jones and that’s all that matters to me right now.

We need way more NFL media personalities saying things I specifically agree with and fewer who say things I disagree with.

I don’t understand why it’s so hard for these companies to understand this.

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