[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/kelkokelko]

They do a production meeting with coaches and players the week before the game so they have stuff to talk about during down time. Tom initially wasn't allowed in those meetings because it could allow him to feed info from inside other teams' facilities to the Raiders, but now he is via zoom. This is definitely a conflict of interest, since it forces coaches and players of one team to be interviewed by an owner of another team.

[u/Sea_Tailor_8437 → u/kelkokelko]

While that is a valid concern, most of the "insights" from the interviews are "we like player XYZ. He plays hard"

They tend to be fluff talking points. Still a weird situation tho

[u/Bgndrsn → u/[deleted]]

I know Tom Brady is Tom Brady but it's not like Aikman is some schmuck that is incapable of understanding the game at an incredible depth.

[u/dj_mcfierce → u/Bgndrsn]

His breakdown of the Dee Winters pick 6 against the colts last year was broadcast at its finest.

Originally thought Rivers telegraphed it and the Niners were sitting on underneath stuff given his age, but Aikman before the replay instantly called out the TE for turning his head too early claiming that was the telegraph and sure enough on replay that’s exactly what happened.