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Tom Brady’s TV career so far has been a dud. Will that change in the Super Bowl?

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Tom Brady will be in the booth to analyze the game for an anticipated US audience of 120 million on Sunday .

Brady ’s broadcast debut back in September was an inoffensive mess.

He was overprepared and overly eager, struggling to form coherent sentences and drenching the audience with banal cliches.

Brady is in the first year of a 10-season , $ 375 m contract with Fox .

The most successful player in league history was relegated to the role of the guy at the bar barking at the TV.

During the Eagles-Commanders game, he uttered some variation of the word “juice” nine times.

An audience deserves an announcer fully engaged in the role, and who is given the bandwidth to do the job effectively is not Brady .

No one alive should be better prepared to break down a Super Bowl .

Brady played won seven of the seven Super Bowls he played in.

He faced and beat most of the key protagonists for the Chiefs and Eagles as a player.