Tom Brady is doing everything he can to get the Las Vegas Raiders back to winning ways.
The seven-time Super Bowl winner is a minority owner in the franchise having purchase a ten percent stake in 2024.
The No.1 priority for the lowly Raiders this offseason is finding new head coach Pete Carroll a quarterback.
The Silver and Black have cycled through a bevvy of mediocre signal callers, with legendary quarterback Brady leading the hunt for a new man under center.
According to Fox Sports insider Jordan Schultz, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford recently caught up with Brady in Montana.
Many did the easy maths and deduced that Brady was trying to recruit Stafford to the Raiders.
“Raiders minority owner Tom Brady recently hosted Rams QB Matthew Stafford at his home in Montana, where they spent time together and went skiing,” Schultz wrote.
“Brady has been actively trying to convince Stafford to join the Raiders, and discussions are ongoing. Several teams are interested in Stafford if the Rams decide to move him, with Las Vegas believed to be the most aggressive suitor.”
Stafford still has a year left on his deal with the Rams, and some fans accused Brady of tampering the veteran field general.
However, according to the NFL themselves, that Montana meeting between Brady and Stafford — whether planned or impromptu — wasn’t tampering.
“No issue here,” an official NFL league spokesman told OutKick in an email Thursday morning.
“The Rams provided permission.”
If the Raiders are to land Stafford they’ll have to fight off stiff competition from the likes of the New York Giants and Pittsburgh Steelers, who are both in need of a QB1.
However, Stafford is reportedly holding out for at least $50 million a season, which the Rams could easily match and keep him around Los Angeles for the foreseeable future.
If the Raiders and Stafford can’t find a solution, they are other options on the table for the team from Sin City.
Cam Ward and Shedeur Sanders are the biggest names in April’s NFL Draft class, which could prove fertile hunting ground for the Raiders.
Las Vegas holds the sixth pick and could opt to trade up or hope one of Ward or Sanders falls — a tough proposition with several QB-needy teams.
Elsewhere, yhe free agent class includes Sam Darnold, Justin Fields, and, intriguingly, Russell Wilson — Carroll’s Super Bowl-winning QB at the Seattle Seahawks.
Rams head coach McVay addressed Stafford’s future on the Fitz & Whit podcast.
“At the end of the day, we had something in mind, he had something in mind, and nobody was right or wrong,” he said. “And then, ultimately, you’re saying there’s a ton of interest, because this guy’s an incredible player.
“There’s no discrepancy on us wanting him to continue to lead the way and be our quarterback.
“The interesting and the challenging dilemma and dynamics within this are, ‘Hey, how do you continuously as a head coach look at the short term and the long term and be able to figure out what does that really look like?’
“There is no dispute — and let’s not get it twisted in regarding to anybody wanting him to be our quarterback.
“Now, there’s layers to it. You have to be able to say, ‘Hey, how do we continuously build? How do we support him? How do we make sure that he’s getting what is his worth relative to those things?’”
