Tom Brady’s first season as lead NFL color commentator on Fox was largely a disaster. Arguably the greatest professional football player of all time struggled to convey genuine and compelling insight without sounding stilted and awkward. Add in controversy over Brady’s ownership of the Las Vegas Raiders and a potential conflict of interest as an announcer, and it’s clear he hasn’t helped himself much either.

If you were hoping that Brady would be stronger during Sunday’s NFC Wild Card game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers, you were probably a little too optimistic.

Because, as many Bluesky users pointed out, Brady laid an egg almost every time he got the nudge to start analyzing a sequence.

Just listening to Brady, for example, it’s as if he’s read a book of pro football clichés until he’s memorized them. I mean, it’s plausible, right?

In another instance, Brady also claimed that the Eagles (not to be confused with the Philadelphia Phillies) love interceptions. That’s all he said. Wow, groundbreaking stuff. The defense loves forcing takeaways? Absolutely not.

This was a consistent theme for a once great player and now mediocre announcer. If it sounded like Brady was reading off a teleprompter and a game script without even preparing it, that’s probably because he was.

If it sounded like Brady was condescendingly expecting the audience at home to already understand what he was saying, that was probably because he did.

Do you know what the worst news is here, dear readers?

No matter what happens next in Brady’s budding career, he will still reach Super Bowl 59 in just a few weeks. That’s right. Millions of innocent fans who just want a competent call will hear Brady again at the biggest American sporting event of the year (and throughout the NFC postseason, for that matter).

Indeed. We’ll hear Brady’s voice for more than three hours during the biggest football celebration of the entire calendar.

Oh, joyful day. How lucky are we?