{"id":857021,"date":"2026-04-06T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857021\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:21:16","slug":"nfl-declines-comment-regarding-troy-aikmans-statement-on-miami-dolphins-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/857021\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL declines comment regarding Troy Aikman’s statement on Miami Dolphins role"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Troy Aikman took on a role with the Miami Dolphins to help with their general manger and head coaching search, most assumed it was temporary. However, Aikman kept his role with the franchise<\/a> after the search, which led to some interesting comments about the duality of being a broadcaster and involved in Miami\u2019s front office.<\/p>\n

Basically, he\u2019s another Tom Brady-type, who\u2019s been questioned and\/or criticized regarding his role as FOX\u2019s No. 1 color analyst and a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. The NFL was recently asked about Aikman\u2019s comments about his role, but decline comment, per Pro Football Talk.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI will say I\u2019m pulling for the Dolphins . . . because\u00a0now I have something at stake, and I think they hired two really talented, wonderful people, and I think that\u2019s gonna prove itself out,\u201d Aikman recently told Clarence E. Hill Jr. of DLLS Sports. \u201cBut, yeah, I\u2019m pulling for them. I want to see them do well because I feel like my fingerprints are on it as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aikman told Hill there was a mutual understanding between him and the Dolphins. Although he seemed ot be more open about his role with them compared to Brady with the Raiders, who has not outwardly said he was pulling for Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Dolphins were wise in understanding my relationships around the league,\u201d Aikman told Hill. \u201cAnd knowing that I have information that they don\u2019t have or can\u2019t get. And I think they were smart in taking advantage of that \u2014 whether it was through me or through somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Serving as the color commentator in FOX\u2019s A-team alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, Brady cannot attend practices or even enter the team facilities of the franchises he covers. He also can\u2019t participate in broadcast production meetings.<\/p>\n

All of this is to limit the trade secrets he could obtain from covering games and presumably take back to the Raiders. If Aikman continues to work with the Dolphins, Brady\u2019s rules likely become his at some point.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, this year, the Dolphins reached out to me and asked if I would help them in their GM search and head coaching search,\u201d Aikman told Dale Brisby on the Rodeo Time podcast.<\/a> \u201cKinda caught me out of left field, I wasn\u2019t expecting that. But I dove into it, decided I would do it, and thoroughly enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cFelt like I was of some help, and where that might go, I\u2019m not sure. I\u2019m gonna continue to work with them in some capacity, and that\u2019s kind of scratched whatever itch I had when it came to being in the front office.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Troy Aikman took on a role with the Miami Dolphins to help with their general manger and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2049],"tags":[217,7,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-857021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-dolphins","12":"tag-miamidolphins","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116358446603652375","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}