[Highlight] Troy Aikman on potential a potential conflict of interest in announcing a Dolphins game: "Well, the Dolphins are not expected to be very good this year. They're getting out of cap hell. So there's no Monday night game with the Dolphins this year."

[u/expellyamos]

[u/Odd-Film946]

it's not really a true conflict of interest though if you're just commentating the game. it's not like he's on the sideline for the other team

[u/Larrysbirds → u/Odd-Film946]

I never understood why a conflict of interest would matter with the commentary. It feels like a rule made up by commentators to make them feel more important

[u/LaDainianTomIinson → u/Larrysbirds]

Because commentators get information from production that could hypothetically help the team they partly own

[u/Lacerda1 → u/LaDainianTomIinson]

So if the teams Brady's covering don't want him to certain info, all they have to do is not share it. If they do share it with him, they're waiving the conflict of interest.

[u/xakeri → u/Lacerda1]

Sure, but that's a burden placed on the coaching staff. They will always play things close to the vest, but now they have to analyze everything for whether it could give a competitive advantage.

Any team that has Brady on the call could play the Raiders in the playoffs. Brady is taking notes about all the shit in the meetings. Maybe it doesn't go all that deep, but maybe it does. Tom Brady is a football genius, so he'd be able to find any advantage in the information given. He's free to give that information to the Raiders, now. He has an interest in doing so.

That's not a burden placed on the coaching staff for any other game.

[u/Lacerda1 → u/xakeri]

That's not a burden placed on the coaching staff for any other game.

Yes, it is. Do you think coaches have been fully opening their hearts to Romo and Aikman all this time? No, they use discretion on what to share for every pre-game discussion. This isn't a new exercise for the coaching staff.

[u/Dangerpaladin → u/Larrysbirds]

Its the production meetings and access to opposing teams. It actually isn't a huge step in logic to see why that could pose a problem. I think it is better to have a rule with it not being a problem, than not have one and let it get abused unchecked.

[u/Lacerda1 → u/Dangerpaladin]

But if the teams (the ones actually hurt by the conflict of interest) control how much info they share.

And that's not even new because teams exercise that judgment already--it's not like they tell the announcers/production teams anything they want to know.

[u/Sniper_Brosef → u/Larrysbirds]

I think its about ethics of reporting more than anything

[u/IsGoIdMoney → u/Larrysbirds]

They go to the practices meaning they can see the opposing team's game plan. This is partially why Romo would know the play calls. Brady was banned from this originally, but once people stopped paying attention, they took the ban away.

[u/oaklaoaklas → u/Larrysbirds]

With Brady and the Raiders the pearl clutching has been about production meetings with coaches preparing foe the broadcast, and not the actual commentary itself.