Brady: Broadcasting will provide opportunity to be 'more critical'

Tom Brady plans to show a more critical side of himself when he makes the move to the television booth.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback spoke Monday about his future broadcasting career with NBA Hall of Famer and longtime TNT analyst Charles Barkley on his "Let's Go!" podcast.

"In my second career, I'm gonna be on TV, and I'm gonna have the opportunity to be, I would say, more critical than what I've been as a player," Brady said. " I always think as a player, I gotta pick my spots in the locker room 'cause there's frustrations you have as a player. I always feel like I just go address them ... I never really do that through the media, I just go to the players, or I go to the coach, or I go to the person who can actually solve the problem."

Brady admitted he has already started watching NFL games from a more critical perspective and tends to focus more on what went wrong rather than the "speculator" plays.

"I just feel like there's probably more of Johnny Miller in me, where, when I used to watch him on golf telecasts, it was just scathing sometimes. 'That guy choked under pressure' or whatever," Brady said. "And that's essentially how I end up seeing the game a lot now. Not that I want to be negative, but I do want to point (things) out."

Brady signed a 10-year, $375-million deal with Fox earlier this year to join the network as its lead NFL analyst once his playing career ends. The contract will make him the highest-paid sports broadcaster in history.

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