Halfway done the 2024 NFL season, Tom Brady, successful his archetypal twelvemonth broadcasting with the Fox Sports team, acknowledged he’s trying to amended his colour commentary alongside Kevin Burkhardt each week.
A erstwhile teammate of Brady's, a existent contributor connected "FOX NFL Sunday," hears those improvements.
Rob Gronkowski, arguably Brady’s favourite people during their NFL days, spoke to Fox News Digital astir Brady’s investigation this season.
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady (12) and choky extremity Rob Gronkowski (87) observe aft beating the Kansas City Chiefs successful the 2021 Super Bowl astatine Raymond James Stadium. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)
Not lone does "Gronk" emotion being teammates with Brady successful their post-playing lives, helium sees the enactment his aged signal-caller has enactment successful to get amended astatine his caller career.
"He’s having truthful overmuch fun, and I emotion it," Gronkowski explained aft making an quality astatine the expansive opening of Great Wolf Lodge South Florida. "I emotion seeing Tom person that success. And what’s truthful bully astir it arsenic good is helium chimes successful each erstwhile successful a portion to the pregame amusement booth portion I’m astatine the desk. So, I’m capable to inquire him immoderate questions earlier immoderate games. And that’s truly peculiar to beryllium teammates with him again disconnected the field.
"We’re some teammates astatine FOX, and he’s doing specified a bully job. He’s made tremendous improvement."
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Brady told Fox News Digital successful September, aft the commencement of the NFL season, helium was "learning connected the fly" with his caller gig. With that comes challenges to set and accommodate to his caller passion.
Gronkowski knows what it’s similar to modulation to the broadcasting broadside of the business, truthful helium has his friend’s backmost erstwhile it comes to not being cleanable close disconnected the bat.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady (12) and choky extremity Rob Gronkowski (87) against the Cincinnati Bengals during the archetypal 4th astatine Raymond James Stadium. (Kim Klement/USA Today Sports)
"I mean, nary 1 is going to spell retired of the gross — myself, not immoderate analyst, not immoderate commentator — nary 1 is going to spell retired of the gates and beryllium perfect. Just to spot him amended week successful and week out, that’s what it’s each about. That’s who Tom Brady is," Gronkowski said. "He’s a feline that’s going to marque corrections. He's a feline that’s going to support improving until it’s perfect."
Brady and Burkhardt’s "America’s Game of the Week" volition beryllium 1 of the champion matchups of the play with the Buffalo Bills facing disconnected against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Gronkowski was inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame earlier this week, and helium said helium couldn’t flight a speech without the crippled betwixt the 2 AFC rivals being brought up.
The conflict betwixt the 2 league powerhouses volition diagnostic 2 of the game’s apical quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen.
Fox colour commentator Tom Brady earlier a crippled betwixt the San Francisco 49ers and the Arizona Cardinals astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, Calif., Oct. 6, 2024. (Darren Yamashita/Imagn Images)
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Whether it’s Bills-Chiefs oregon different matchup, Gronkowski is ever looking guardant to proceeding Brady.
"Tom, support doing you, man. Keep improving. We’re loving it," Gronkowski said.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.