It had been reported that Brady was an active figure in the Raiders’ pursuit of their next general manager and head coach. While Brady acknowledged that he’s had a hand in the searches, he also shared how he’s approaching his role as a minority owner.

“Being a rookie, you’ve got to almost go back to what your roots are as a rookie and remember that when you are a rookie, you’re trying to learn as much as you can,” Brady said. “When I was a rookie as a quarterback, I really engulfed myself in the playbook and listened to a lot of the veterans and said, ‘This is how you’re going to go about it Tom. This is how you’re going to be the best possible player you can be.’ Then you realize that many years later, 10 years later, I started to actually perform the way that I was capable of performing.”

As of Wednesday, Brady and the Raiders had interviewed eight candidates to become their next head coach. One of them was former Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson, who was a highly sought-after head coach candidate this offseason. Even though there had been reports about Brady’s interest in making Johnson the Raiders’ next head coach, Johnson wound up becoming the Chicago Bears‘ head coach on Monday.

So, the search continues for Brady and Las Vegas. The rumored interest in Johnson would make it easy to assume Brady’s hoping that the team hires an offensive-minded head coach. But as Colin Cowherd mentioned that Bill Belichick let Brady work independently with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels during his time with the New England Patriots, Brady noted that Belichick’s hands were involved in several areas of the team, indicating that he doesn’t want a coach siloed on one side of the ball.

“There’s such a jigsaw puzzle when you look at a lot of different organizations,” Brady said. “Whether it’s a football organization or basketball or baseball, I think it’s a collective group of people and you’ve got to figure out that puzzle of what exactly fits. If you do have a defensive head coach, like Bill was, Bill was a great manager. Bill did a great job of coaching the coaches. He had high expectations. I think he had a background on offense. He didn’t necessarily throw all of his ideas out there, but he did have a general understanding of how we should perform on offense and he had expectations for that.