What restrictions are placed on Tom Brady as Raiders owner? 6 things you need to know

Tom Brady is finally a team owner in the NFL, as the league announced that it was approving his bid to purchase a 10% stake in the Las Vegas Raiders (he will have 7% of it, with a still-unnamed business partner getting the remaining 3%). But there is a problem: he is also Fox's lead analyst, which could cause conflicts of interest when the network inevitabhly is assigned to air one of the team's games.

So to prevent any potential collusion, he will have to obey these rules, as per ESPN's Seth Wickersham(via Bleacher Report).

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Restrictions placed on Tom Brady as part-owner of Las Vegas Raiders

1) Brady cannot gamble

This is self-explanatory. Multiple players have been suspended for betting, whether it be on football or other sports. Tennessee Titans wide receiver Calvin Ridley is among the highest-profile cases of the current decade.

As a part-owner, Tom Brady is technically an employee of the Raiders organization. That makes him a sort of paragon, someone to be looked up to. And gambling is a vice that can destroy that reputation.

2) Brady cannot be involved in player transactions

Outside of game coverage, Fox also has talk shows that discuss player movement - trades, releases, signings, and scouting and drafting - all aspects of football operations, which Brady wants to do.

Of course, the Raiders will be involved in many of them - Davante Adams being sent to the New York Jets as an example. He will have a say in that, so the league wants to prevent him from influencing such moves.

3) Brady cannot criticize officials or other teams

This is one of the hardest rules for the seven-time Super Bowl champion to follow. One of the biggest roles of the analyst is to point out the flaws that teams need to address; but his new role puts him on the owners' corporate brotherhood, so he has to play nice to them apparently.

The same thing applies to officiating. There will inevitably be a few highly debatable and controversial calls made in games, especially if they go against the Raiders, so he has to remain neutral about them.

4) Brady cannot attend production meetings

Now, onto the three most important restrictions for Tom Brady. First off, Fox's commentary teams realy heavily on the information that the researchers and producers curate. There will obviously be Raiders topics in there, and he could influence them into not including them if they are negative.

Or there is a positive Raider topic that goes unnoticed, and he could influence them into adding it.

5) Brady cannot visit team practices

This one applies to all 32 teams, and not just the Raiders. None of them want him disclosing playbooks, schemes, and strategies all over the league, thus giving each of them an easier idea on how to win games.

6) Brady cannot visit other teams' facilities

This is the most obvious. Brady is, after all, supposed to be a member of the Raiders organization. Mark Davis does not want him either revealing team secrets (football or non-football) to rivals, or stealing said rivals' secrets and passing them off to the front office.