NFL declines comment on Troy Aikman's recent comments about his role with Dolphins
Tom Brady blazed the trail. Troy Aikman is now walking the same path. Brady wears a pair of conflicting hats, covering the entire league as an employee at Fox while owning a piece of the Raiders.
Aikman's short-term stint as a consultant for Miami's G. M. and head-coaching hires (both of which they may have nailed) has morphed into an ongoing role that has yet to be fully defined.
The apples-to-apples Brady comparison is unmistakable. An analyst who calls games involving all teams has a financial interest as to one of them. "I will say I’m pulling for the Dolphins .
. . because now I have something at stake , and I think they hired two really talented, wonderful people, and I think that’s gonna prove itself out," Aikman recently told Clarence E.
Hill Jr. of DLLS Sports. "But, yeah, I’m pulling for them.