Tom Brady was a seven-time Super Bowl champion when he was quarterback of the New England Patriots and later the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

But in his rookie season as a Fox Sports football announcer and the highest-paid game analyst on television, Brady is failing, at least according to New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick

Mushnick heavily criticized Brady’s appearance at Fox’s Thanksgiving Day game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants, saying Brady had been “force-fed” to the nation.

“And what we got from Brady in NFL Week 13 is what we’ve gotten the last 12 weeks: a set of self-evident ‘goods’ – ‘good call’, ‘good catch’, ‘good throw’ and ‘ good call.” .”

Mushnick said that in exchange for $375 million, Fox got an announcer who was “well, a little bit overpriced, by about $375 million.”

He went on to say that Brady isn’t terrible. “It was simply unimportant, irrelevant and ultimately unnecessary, as if $375 million for seasonal work were the going rate. He said almost nothing worth thinking about, let alone applying or remembering. Boothmate Kevin Burkhardt seemed to be waiting, eager to follow up on something Brady said. But nothing developed.”

Not that Brady is solely to blame, Mushnick said.

“Which brings us to the Einstein theory of sports broadcasting madness: If you need actionable advice to improve yourself, to make yourself more attractive and more valuable to the audience, the worst place to be is in the hands of the people at the network who hired you .”

Mushnick said that “the rate of improvement in on-air attitudes is zero percent.” In Brady’s case, why should Fox do for him what it did for Daryl “Moose” Johnston, Gus Johnson, John Smoltz, Greg Olsen, Mark Schlereth , Jonathan Vilma and Joe Davis didn’t do it?”

He added: “So if Fox were to invest more time and money into pushing Brady even a little above average, it wouldn’t know where to go in terms of throwing good money after crazy money.”

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