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Tom Brady’s broadcast debut draws overflow of snark, and shows No. 12 has long road ahead to prep for a Super Bowl call

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The response I received to Tom Brady’s debut Sunday as a Fox NFL color analyst was so over-the-top negative, I’m surprised no one messaged me to suggest that it’s finally time for Drew Bledsoe to take a job from him.

But the collective sentiment carried the same snarky tone. One emailer, who signed his missive JC, did elicit a laugh.

“If a potato could talk,” he wrote, “it would sound like Tom Brady.”

Suffice it to say that the seven-time Super Bowl champion and Fox’s $375 million man, who replaced the excellent Greg Olsen alongside Kevin Burkhardt on the network’s No.