Tom Brady's first game as a Fox NFL analyst will be Cowboys-Browns 2024 season opener

Tom Brady’s long-awaited debut in the NFL broadcast booth now has a game and date affixed to it.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion and former Michigan quarterback will be on the call for Fox as an analyst for a week one matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and Cleveland Browns on Sept. 8 in Cleveland, the network announced on Monday ahead of the NFL’s schedule release, which will take place Wednesday night.

“Having the Cowboys on is a huge draw as America’s Team,” Brady said after being told of the assignment. “That’s going to get a little hard for me to say that all the time. Understand, they were the competition for a long time. In this new role, I know how important the Cowboys are to this network. They’ve got great storylines. Dak Prescott, let’s see if he can finally come through…Did that just slip out? Micah Parsons, what a great player he is, and coach McCarthy. I love covering them. I’ve obviously been going against them for a long time and now I get to tell everyone how great they are.”

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Brady’s first non-playing football job since his retirement after the end of the 2022 season has been in the works for some time.

In May 2022, two months after Brady reneged on his initial retirement from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Fox Sports announced that the legendary quarterback would be joining the network following the end of his playing career, having inked what was reported to be a 10-year deal worth an astonishing $375 million for a first-time broadcaster.

Brady ended up playing one more season for the Buccaneers and opted to wait until 2024 to assume his role with Fox. In the meantime, former Pro Bowl tight end Greg Olsen remained as Fox’s No. 1 analyst for the 2023 season.

The first game Brady will work should be an intriguing one, with the Cowboys and Browns both coming off a season in which they made the playoffs, though once there, neither team was able to win a game, with Dallas stumbling at home against the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland falling on the road against the Houston Texans.

A sixth-round pick out of Michigan in the 2000 NFL Draft, Brady played 23 NFL seasons, during which he won a record seven Super Bowls — six with the New England Patriots, one with the Buccaneers — and was a three-time NFL MVP. He is widely considered to be the greatest quarterback in NFL history.

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