Tom Brady hires a new GM for the Las Vegas Raiders... and it's an old friend

Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders are acceptable to prosecute Tampa Bay Buccaneers exec John Spytek arsenic their caller wide manager, it has been revealed.

Spytek, who has spent a full of 9 years successful Tampa, stepped up to go adjunct wide manager for the Buccaneers successful 2023 aft initially joining arsenic manager of subordinate unit successful 2016.

The 44-year-old was yet promoted to vice president of subordinate unit 5 years later, a presumption helium held for 2 seasons earlier making the measurement up to adjunct GM under Jason Licht.

Yet aft wrapping up his ninth play with the Bucs, helium is present poised to reunite with Brady - who won the Super Bowl with Tampa Bay successful 2020 - and instrumentality the apical occupation implicit successful Las Vegas.

NFL Network's Ian Rapoport confirmed connected Wednesday that Spytek is taking implicit arsenic GM for the Raiders, who precocious fired predecessor Tom Telesco aft conscionable 1 year.

Telesco's dismissal came conscionable a mates of days aft caput manager Antonio Pierce was besides fixed the footwear astatine Allegiant Stadium. The moves took spot aft the Raiders went 4-13 this season.

Brady, who acquired a number involvement successful the Raiders past year, has been helping the franchise successful its hunt for a caller wide manager and caput manager successful caller weeks.  

While they are yet to find a replacement for Pierce, helium has helped them onshore a acquainted look for the GM relation successful Spytek - idiosyncratic helium knows precise well.

As good arsenic spending clip unneurotic successful Tampa, Spytek and Brady were besides teammates unneurotic astatine Michigan successful 1999, earlier the erstwhile ventured into scouting aft graduating from assemblage with a bachelor's grade successful wide studies and a master's successful sports management. 

The Raiders volition become just the 2nd franchise successful the Super Bowl epoch to participate a play 3 years successful a enactment with a caller GM and coach. The Cleveland Browns successful 2012-14 are the different nine to clasp specified a distinction.

Brady's evident power successful hiring a caller wide manager for Las Vegas comes amid scrutiny of his relation arsenic a Fox Sports commentator.

The legendary backmost has reportedly played an integral portion successful their caput manager and wide manager searches successful caller weeks, having carried retired interviews with a fig of imaginable candidates.

His dense engagement successful Las Vegas has led to galore questioning his impartiality arsenic a commentator for Fox; including erstwhile helium worked Saturday's Commanders-Lions crippled not agelong aft interviewing then-Detroit OC Ben Johnson.

Though contempt calls for him to beryllium fired by the network, Brady has ruled retired an aboriginal Fox exit 1 play into his 10-year, $375million contract. 

'I don't cognize wherever it comes from,' helium said connected FS1's 'The Herd' with Colin Cowherd. 'I cognize it ever says "sources adjacent to Brady" oregon whatever, but I've had the champion clip astatine Fox and I've loved each clip going into the booth and moving with specified large people.

'To spot however it is from a antithetic perspective, I've had truthful galore years playing connected the field, I've watched truthful galore games from the sidelines, present I'm up determination successful the booth and seeing it from a antithetic perspective, and I've loved the full process successful diving into each these antithetic teams. It's been a batch of maturation for maine successful 1 year.

'I truly can't hold to spot what it looks similar successful twelvemonth 2 and mode beyond that too. I've got 9 years near connected my woody and possibly longer, you ne'er know...

'If Fox wants maine and I privation to spell [on], we'll conscionable support going, origin it's been truly amusive frankincense far.'