NFL: Brady didn't violate rules in Raiders booth

Tom Brady did not interruption immoderate NFL rules by wearing a headset successful the Las Vegas Raiders' coaching booth during Monday night's game.

The NFL announced Tuesday successful a connection that Brady, a number proprietor with the Raiders and a broadcaster for Fox, is "prohibited from going to a squad installation for practices oregon accumulation meetings." But the erstwhile prima backmost is allowed to beryllium successful the coaches' booth, according to the league.

"There are nary policies that prohibit an proprietor from sitting successful the coaches' booth oregon wearing a headset during a game," NFL spokesperson Brian McCarthy said. "Brady was sitting successful the booth successful his capableness arsenic a constricted partner.

"All unit sitting successful the booth indispensable abide by policies that prohibit the usage of physics devices different than league-issued instrumentality specified arsenic a Microsoft Surface Tablet for the Sideline Viewing System."

Telecasts showed Brady successful the Raiders' booth wearing a headset during the archetypal 4th of the Raiders' 20-9 nonaccomplishment Monday to the Los Angeles Chargers.

After his 23-year playing career, Brady made his Fox debut past play connected a 10-year, $375 cardinal declaration that helium primitively agreed to successful 2022. But limitations were enactment connected Brady due to the fact that of his statement to go a partial proprietor of the Raiders, a woody that was approved by league owners successful October.

As a broadcaster, helium gets entree to different teams' players and coaches that different owners bash not have, raising concerns astir a struggle of interest.

The NFL precocious relaxed immoderate of its restrictions for Brady successful that role, including allowing him to instrumentality portion successful accumulation meetings -- erstwhile a broadcast unit meets with that game's caput coaches and cardinal players -- this season. He indispensable instrumentality portion successful those meetings remotely, and helium isn't allowed to be practices astatine squad facilities.

"Tom continues to beryllium prohibited from going to a squad installation for practices oregon accumulation meetings," McCarthy said successful his connection Tuesday. "He whitethorn be accumulation meetings remotely but whitethorn not be successful idiosyncratic astatine the squad installation oregon hotel. He whitethorn besides behaviour an interrogation disconnected tract with a subordinate similar helium did past twelvemonth a mates times, including for the Super Bowl. Of course, arsenic with immoderate accumulation gathering with broadcast teams, it's up to the club, manager oregon players to find what they accidental successful those sessions."

Raiders manager Pete Carroll and first-time wide manager John Spytek, who was successful the Tampa Bay Buccaneers beforehand bureau erstwhile the seven-time Super Bowl champion was their starting quarterback, person consulted with Brady connected roster decisions during the offseason. Spytek told ESPN successful April that Brady's dependable has been "invaluable."

First-year Raiders violative coordinator Chip Kelly besides told ESPN helium speaks with the aboriginal Hall of Famer 2 to 3 times per week, going done movie and the crippled program for the week.

But Carroll called the study astir Brady and Kelly speaking aggregate times per week astir the crippled program "not accurate."

"We person conversations," Carroll said aft Monday night's game. "I speech to Tom, Chip talks to Tom regularly. We person a tremendous asset. And we each get on and respect each other. We conscionable speech astir beingness and football. He has large insight, truthful we're fortunate to person him arsenic an owner."

Brady is slated to telephone Week 3's Dallas Cowboys-Chicago Bears game. The Raiders play the Bears the pursuing week.