Before Tom Brady even activates his Telestrator during Fox’s Cowboys-Browns broadcast Sunday, a portion of the audience for his debut as a color analyst will already have decided that he’s a bust in the booth.
They have to do it. It’s human nature and fan nature, a predisposition and a coping mechanism for all of the times Brady destroyed their team’s hopes and dreams during his extraordinary 23-year playing career.
What kind of self-respecting Falcons fan — or even one not-so-self-respecting, for that matter — wants to hear Brady adeptly break down why, oh, Dak Prescott missed an open CeeDee Lamb when every time he speaks they think of “28-3″?