In his first year as a Fox broadcaster, Tom Brady has had his ups and his downs. The former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback basically had to learn a new job on the fly, and the gig presented different challenges to those he faced in his playing days.

When Tom Brady signed his 10-year, $375 million contract with Fox as the lead NFL broadcaster, the network saw Brady as the perfect person to reshape that booth in the post-Joe Buck/Troy Aikman era.

Brady will finish his first season serving as Fox's lead in-game NFL analyst without having called a single Las Vegas contest. Media insider Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated believes that run could end next fall with the Raiders reportedly set to hire one-time Super Bowl champion Pete Carroll as their next head coach.