Tom Brady has valid reason for not showing up to Raiders facility

Despite the fact that future Hall of Famer and Las Vegas Raiders minority owner Tom Brady is expected to have a huge voice in the team moving forward, Brady has not been around much.

That was revealed by head coach Pete Carroll recently. Carroll noted that Brady has only been inside the building once since Carroll became head coach, but he still talks with the NFL legend on a regular basis.

“We’re phone buddies. He hasn’t been out here but one time since we’ve been here, but we’ve talked a ton of times, and talking philosophy with Tom, you can imagine what a thrill it is because he’s the all-time competitor,” Carroll said on Brock & Salk.

In the wake of Carroll's comments, many wondered why Brady hasn't been around physically all that much, but an NFL insider shed some light on that.

“As I understand it, Brady’s cognizant of how his mere presence can take the oxygen out of whatever room he’s in,” Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer said.

"So to empower Carroll and GM John Spytek, whom Brady was with in Tampa, he’s tried to make himself physically scarce, staying back in South Florida where he and two of his three children reside.”

Hard to argue with that logic. Brady is a bigger-than-life character and immediately grabs attention in any room he's in. His physical presence certainly isn't necessary, especially with the stellar leadership of Carroll and Spytek in the building.

How involved Brady is with the Raiders remains unclear based on comments both he and Carroll and Spytek have made.

We've heard Carroll and Spytek mention that they would definitely involve him in the process of evaluating players, and more specifically, with quarterbacks.

But Brady himself denied he had any role in the evaluation of Shedeur Sanders, which lends to the idea he isn't as involved as many thought he would be.

"I wasn’t a part of any evaluation process,” Brady said on the Impaulsive podcast.

At the end of the day, Brady's involvement and presence in the building is trivial. What's important is the franchise gets on the right track and starts building a winning culture that has been absent for far too long.

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