Aug 8, 2025; Foxborough, Massachusetts, USA; Retired New England Patriot Hall of Famer Tom Brady speaks during a statue unveiling before a game against the Washington Commanders at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images

Tom Brady has gotten an earful when it comes to the potential conflict of interest between his ownership role with the Las Vegas Raiders and his color commentary role with Fox. After all, going from pre-game meetings with potential opponents and back to the owner's box in Sin City presents an opportunity for advance scouting no other team in the NFL can match.

But Brady disagrees. And he's heard enough. The seven-time Super Bowl winner took to the internet -- via his personal website, tombrady.com -- to address concerns and almost certainly not silence critics.

He channeled the ghost of Bill Belichick (currently being Weekend at Bernie's-ed through a final act of leaving the University of North Carolina program a smoking crater that looks great through Instagram filters) in a piece titled "Do Your Job." It's mostly a reflection of how hard Brady works (something that's never once been in question, the man played football until he was 45 years old) and how being a New England Patriot for more than two decades has made him view ethics in football (ehhhhh).

From his post:

As a broadcaster, I want everyone who tunes into FOX on Sunday afternoons to feel like they got their money’s worth for the three hours they entrust to our entire team. Those are precious hours for busy, hardworking people. We owe them a return on that investment, which is to do our jobs to the best of our abilities. For me, it’s to entertain and inform and to help create a great viewing experience by drawing on the deep well of knowledge and wisdom I have gained from playing high level football for nearly thirty years....

If I can bring my knowledge and experience to bear inside the Raiders organization to ensure there’s one more team that does things the right way; and then I can apply it in the booth so millions of people know and enjoy what the right way looks like—then I will have lived up to the expectations I have for myself, and I will have done so in service of a much greater duty. One that I believe every person involved with pro football shares, whether they know it or not...

There is rarely any benefit of the doubt. There is no discipline to “have no opinion,” as Marcus Aurelius would say, about things you don’t understand or can’t control, but trigger your emotions nonetheless. I don’t know what it is about judgmental people, but their judgments never seem to be positive or optimistic.

The solution to that problem, ironically, is the same for paranoia and distrust. It’s doing your job with integrity. It’s finding fulfillment in doing the best you can. It’s living up to the duty you have to yourself, to your employer, to your family, to the culture, to your fellow citizens. It’s educating yourself and filling your knowledge gaps not with assumptions and judgments, but with facts and figures.

In short, Tom Brady does things the Right Way (tm) and he doesn't care who knows it. Sure, he has the opportunity to cheat, but that would be a shortcut. And as a New England Patriot, he would never bend the rules to his advantage, even in the slightest, dumbest ways.

Therefore, Tom Brady is innocent, per Tom Brady. And if the Raiders start looking more prepared on the field than ever then, hey, they're just doing their jobs and buying into the Patriot Way.

This article originally appeared on For The Win: Tom Brady's 'no conflict of interest' blog is raising questions answered by his blog

Reporting by Christian D'Andrea, For The Win / For The Win

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