Tom Brady shares how Nick Saban impacted his broadcasting career

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The greats never stop learning from one another even after their playing days, and Tom Brady is no different.

After retiring from football two years ago, Brady has began a new venture in broadcasting as the lead analyst for Fox calling the biggest games of the week in the NFC. But to Brady, he’s not simply just relaying what the quarterback is seeing on a play to play basis, he wants to treat his role as a teacher of the game to give something back to the viewers.

Brady explained his point during the first edition of his newsletter 199 on Thursday.

“These days when it comes to football, I’m motivated, very much like a coach or a teacher, to grow and improve the game by sharing my knowledge and wisdom in support of the young people who play it,” Brady said in the post. “I’m driven not by what football can do for me, but what I can do for it.”

But Brady later revealed that he was able to learn on a more deeper level about the impacts of his new broadcasting career while watching former Alabama head coach Nick Saban on College Gameday.

“I first noticed how powerful this can be when Nick Saban retired from Alabama and joined the College Gameday crew,” Brady said. “His first broadcast was two weeks before mine, and watching him that Saturday, I could already see the impact of being able to spread his knowledge and wisdom to all fans, not just Alabama fans. I have experience something similar in my role, and it’s changed my relationship with the fans and their understanding of me.”

Prior to broadcasting both Brady and Saban shared a link to each other from legendary head coach Bill Belichick. Saban and Belichick worked together in the NFL while Saban was his defensive coordinator with the Cleveland Browns with Saban describing his as his mentor.

Later on Belichick would be the one to draft Brady with the No. 199 pick in the 2000 NFL Draft where the two would go on to win six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots.

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Patrick Dowd is a Reporter for Touchdown Alabama Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter, via Pat_Dowd77