From the second Tom Brady formally turned a minority proprietor of the Las Vegas Raiders, it felt like a battle of curiosity that he would stay a broadcaster for FOX Sports activities. Now that the top of the NFL season is nearing and awards speak is upon us, one other battle has arisen.
Over the previous decade, the AP Awards have grow to be the official NFL Awards. The votes for these awards are disseminated amongst 50 media members. Brady, regardless of his possession stake, continues to be a media member and thus nonetheless has an award vote.
In keeping with Mike Florio of Professional Soccer Speak, Brady nonetheless has one of many votes for the AP Awards, which presents an apparent battle of curiosity:
Fox analyst Tom Brady has one of many 50 votes for the Related Press awards, which have been the official NFL Honors awards for the reason that league turned the dissemination of the varied trophies right into a TV present greater than a decade in the past. That’s not an issue.
Raiders minority proprietor Tom Brady additionally has one of many 50 votes. That may be a downside.
No staff workers (and particularly no staff proprietor) must be voting on league-wide awards. It’s an apparent battle of curiosity, much more apparent than Brady’s twin function because the proprietor and a commentator, in idea, on all 32 of them.
The battle of curiosity right here is clear and possibly one thing the NFL ought to have addressed way back. Nobody is saying Brady can be biased in his votes or that he might solid votes for some undeserving gamers simply because they play for the Raiders, however that shouldn’t even be a chance.
Brock Bowers will likely be a finalist for the AP Offensive Rookie of the 12 months award and is greater than deserving of successful the award together with his record-setting season. However the runaway favourite stays Washington rookie QB Jayden Daniels, and there’s no denying that it will look a sure manner for Brady to vote for Bowers, even when others did the identical.
It looks as if a reasonably easy answer for Brady’s vote to go to another person. His being a broadcaster on his personal brings its personal set of issues by way of potential conflicts of curiosity, however awards voting as Raiders proprietor is simply one other degree, and the NFL can be smart to repair that concern.
Antonio Pierce addresses followers offended at Raiders win hurting draft place
The main focus for the Raiders franchise proper now must be on the staff lastly ending their 10-game shedding streak with a victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Nonetheless, there are a lot of followers sad with the win because it dropped the Raiders from the second total decide to sixth, hurting their probabilities of drafting a high quarterback.
However that wasn’t a priority for head coach Antonio Pierce who responded merely with ‘speak to Tom Telesco’ when requested about these offended followers within the postgame press convention. For Pierce, who isn’t assured to be round as Raiders coach subsequent season, he’s locked in on successful and getting the most effective out of this roster proper now.
