Pete Carroll refutes report about Tom Brady's meetings with Chip Kelly

Mike Moraitis

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During the Week 2 "Monday Night Football" game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers, Raiders minority owner Tom Brady turned heads when he was spotted in the coaches booth with a headset on.

And when that shot came across our screen on the ESPN broadcast, the announcers revealed that Brady meets with Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly multiple times per week to go over film and discuss the game plan.

When asked about that after the game, head coach Pete Carroll admitted both he and Kelly talk to Brady all the time, but not about the game plan.

"That's not accurate," Carroll said. "We have conversations. I talk to Tom, Chip talks to Tom regularly. We have a tremendous asset, and so we all get along well, we respect each other, and so we just talk about life and football and whatever it becomes. He has great insight, so we're lucky to have him as an owner."

Brady being in the coaches booth also led to some questioning if that's a conflict of interest with his gig as a FOX announcer.

"It underscores the existence of an obvious conflict of interest. Just yesterday, Brady worked the Eagles-Chiefs game, where he had an opportunity to pick up much more intel about the Raiders’ AFC West rivals than any advance scout could ever muster," Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio wrote.

"Do we really think Brady will share nothing he gleaned from the Chiefs’ defense, or offense, during his $37.5 million per year day job before the Raiders face the Chiefs in Week 7?"

Admittedly, it is a strange situation considering Brady's roles as an announcer and the minority owner of the Raiders. It leaves the door open for a clear conflict of interest if the report about Brady's meetings with Kelly is true.

We'll see if the league has anything to say about it moving forward.

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Mike Moraitis

Mike Moraitis is a freelance writer who covers the NFL for the Sporting News. Over his nearly two decades covering sports, Mike has also worked for Bleacher Report, USA TODAY and FanSided. He hates writing in the third person.