With his increased involvement with the Raiders, will Brady really stick around for a full decade as a broadcaster? His agent says, "Yes."

Brian Hoyer, a longtime backup quarterback to Tom Brady, played under McDaniels in both New England and Las Vegas over his NFL career. The 39-year-old was recently asked if he'd have any interest in returning to the Patriots to help Maye learn the system:

Coach Mike Vrabel addressed the report that he told Las Vegas Raiders minority owner Tom Brady that he was taking the New England Patriots job. That conversation reportedly led to the Raiders passing on interviewing Vrabel altogether. However, according to Vrabel, that might not have been specifically how things went.

The Raiders didn’t simply forget to interview Mike Vrabel before he landed with the Patriots. Vrabel told his former Patriots teammate Tom Brady — who owns a minority stake in the Raiders — that he probably was going to end up back in New England, according to an NFL Network report.

Tom Brady reportedly tried to pitch Mike Vrabel on joining the Raiders, but he didn't get very far before Vrabel joined the Patriots.

Among the Boston-area media and fans, ever since New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft fired his own hand-picked head coach, Jerod Mayo, on Sunday, there’s been a widely held belief that Kraft has already hand-picked the next one.

Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders were among the teams interested in hiring Mike Vrabel, but he told his former teammate not to bother because he was determined to land with the Patriots.

As a former player, coach Mike Vrabel always had connections to the New England Patriots organization, and that was probably enough to get him a coaching job with the team earlier. However, he felt a need to leave New England and build his own path to an eventual