{"id":858112,"date":"2026-04-07T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:54:21","slug":"unexpected-tom-brady-decision-leaves-raiders-in-tough-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/858112\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Tom Brady Decision Leaves Raiders in Tough Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s clear the Las Vegas Raiders<\/a> a franchise in transition.<\/p>\n

The team fired offensive coordinator Chip Kelly midseason and head coach Pete Carroll after just one year \u2014 the two men who were brought in to be catalysts of a much-needed culture change.<\/p>\n

Vegas also headed into this offseason relying more on minority owner Tom Brady<\/a> to help lead the team\u2019s rebuild around first-year head coach Klint Kubiak and presumed No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza.<\/p>\n

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\u201cExpect Brady \u2014 who has spent little time in the Raiders building as he balances his broadcasting duties on Fox and other business interests \u2014 to increase his presence as the decision [to hire a new GM] closes in,\u201d NFL<\/a> Network\u2019s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported back in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the Raiders may have been banking on Brady\u2019s expertise as a seven-time Super Bowl winner, Pro Football Talk\u2019s Mike Florio is convinced Brady has sent the Raiders a message to not expect him to be more involved than he already is.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn his newsletter, Brady nevertheless wrote this: \u2018When I commit to something, I go all in,\u2019\u201d Florio stated<\/a>. \u201cIt all comes back to the commitment he believes he made to the Raiders, and the commitment the Raiders believe he made. And the possibility that there\u2019s a gap between the two.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBrady has the right to be involved in as many different business pursuits as he wants (with the exception of those that create obvious conflicts of interest). Still, his latest newsletter makes it clear that he\u2019s currently wondering whether he\u2019s doing too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Florio\u2019s point, Brady does discuss having a work-life balance in his newsletter<\/a>, implying that taking on too many responsibilities in the past was a detriment to that goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re doing too much, and you don\u2019t take the time to recharge your social battery, then you start to slip, to make mistakes,\u201d Brady wrote. \u201cYou start majoring in the minor stuff, neglecting the things that matter for the priorities most pressing at the moment. Worse, you start working at cross-purposes to them. \u2026 My goal is balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If Brady does take a backseat and is less involved in the football operations side of things, that puts more pressure on general manager John Spytek, who\u2019s two years into his career as an NFL GM, to right the ship himself.<\/p>\n

If Mendoza hits, that certainly makes things easier. If Kubiak is the second coming of Kyle Shanahan, that certainly helps.<\/p>\n

But many around the league are convinced the Raiders wanted Brady to join the ownership group to reap the benefits of his winning aura. If he just does the bare minimum as a minority owner, it\u2019s tough to see the Raiders being in a better spot than they are right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s clear the Las Vegas Raiders a franchise in transition. The team fired offensive coordinator Chip Kelly midseason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2065],"tags":[7,1744,393,2455,2454,6,525,1369],"class_list":{"0":"post-858112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-las-vegas-raiders","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-las-vegas","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","11":"tag-lasvegas","12":"tag-lasvegasraiders","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-raiders","15":"tag-tom-brady"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116361408548711089","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858112","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=858112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}