Tom Brady opened the floodgates for cheating in the NFL
Every broadcaster without morals can now have a double life thanks to Tom Brady.
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 07: Tom Brady attends the 2026 Fanatics Super Bowl Party on February 07, 2026 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Anna Webber/Getty Images) | Getty Images It didn’t take long for Tom Brady’s dual life as an NFL owner and broadcaster to lead to teams cheating out in the open. While Brady may have triple-promise, pinky-sweared on his mother’s life that he wouldn’t use confidential information obtained by working for Fox to alter decisions inside the Las Vegas Raiders, Troy Aikman said the quiet part out loud this week when he revealed he’d been hired by the Miami Dolphins as a “consultant.
” Veteran Cowboys beat writer Clarence Hill Jr. spoke with Aikman this week when the former Dallas quarterback-turned-ESPN announcer said that Miami was “wise” for hiring him to essentially funnel information to them that he has learned as a broadcaster . “I think the Dolphins were wise in understanding my relationships around the league and knowing that I have information that they don’t have or can’t get.
And I think they were smart in taking advantage of that, whether it was through me or through somebody else. The Cowboys have never elected to do that, at least with me. You know, maybe they have with others,” Aikman said.
Aikman can try to throw as much flowery language at this as he wants, but he’s fundamentally talking about cheating. It might not be written into the letter of the law by the NFL, because it frankly hadn’t come up before Brady’s dual life, but we’re talking about a broadcaster using information they learned when one team considered them an impartial third party, and funneling it directly to another team for the purpose of gaining a competitive advantage. This is the same Dolphins organization that lost its 1st round pick in 2023 and a third round pick in 2024 for having improper contact with Tom Brady when he was under contract with the New England Patriots, attempting to bring both Brady and then-Saints coach Sean Payton to South Beach.