Chip Kelly tries to clarify Tom Bradys role in

Las Vegas Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly told reporters Thursday that he doesn’t sport plan with group minority proprietor and Fox NFL broadcaster Tom Brady — at least not “on a weekly basis” — despite a report during “Monday Night Football” this week that steered in any other case.

During the first quarter of the Chargers-Raiders sport at Allegiant Stadium, ESPN’s Peter Schrager reported from the sideline that “Chip Kelly told us that he talks to Brady two to three times a week. They go through film. They go through the game plan.”

After the sport, Raiders coach Pete Carroll called the report “not accurate” and said that while he and Kelly converse with Brady “regularly,” those conversations are “about life and football and whatever.”

Kelly was requested about the ESPN report during media availability Thursday. His response echoed Carroll’s.

“I’ve spent a lot of time just talking football with [Brady], but it’s not on a — we don’t talk about game plans,” the former UCLA coach said. “We spent a lot of time over the summer, a couple Zooms … and we would just talk ball, you know, ‘What did you like against this?’ So really, when I use Tom, and I just use him as a resource of, ‘Hey, you know, when you faced a Mike Zimmer-type defense, what did you like protection-wise and play-wise?’

“But on a weekly basis, he’s not game planning with us or talking to us.”

Kelly later added: “In terms of weekly game plans, like, that’s not a collaboration that we do. I mean, he’s also a busy guy, so I haven’t even thought of using him to do that, and I don’t think you can, so — you know, our staff does all that.

“But he’s been a guy that I could talk football with, just shooting it about, ‘Hey, have you ever faced a two-trap defense?’ and, ‘With the inverted, Tampa two that everybody’s running now, what was your best thoughts about that?,’ things like that. But we don’t talk game plan at all or any of that stuff in terms of on a weekly basis.”

The Times reached out to ESPN for feedback from Schrager or the community on the matter. A community consultant declined to remark.

During Schrager’s report, “Monday Night Football” confirmed a live shot of Brady sitting in the Raiders coaches’ sales space and sporting a headset. Kelly told reporters Thursday that he thinks Brady did the same factor during the Raiders’ preseason sport last month against the San Francisco 49ers, also at Allegiant Stadium.

“But he doesn’t talk to the coaches when he’s up there,” Kelly said. “I think he just — he’s watching football.”

NFL chief spokesperson Brian McCarthy said in a assertion Tuesday that Brady was doing nothing fallacious.

“There are no policies that prohibit an owner from sitting in the coaches’ booth or wearing a headset during a game,” McCarthy said. “Brady was sitting in the booth in his capacity as a limited partner.”

Brady faces a quantity of NFL-imposed restrictions on what he’s allowed to do as a broadcaster given his twin standing as a group minority proprietor. Last season, Brady’s first in both roles, he was prohibited from attending the weekly manufacturing conferences during which the Fox crew meets with coaches and gamers forward of that week’s sport.

That restriction was eased going into this season.

“Tom continues to be prohibited from going to a team facility for practices or production meetings,” McCarthy said in his assertion. “He may attend production meetings remotely but may not attend in person at the team facility or hotel. He may also conduct an interview off site with a player like he did last year a couple times, including for the Super Bowl.

“Of course, as with any production meeting with broadcast teams, it’s up to the club, coach or players to determine what they say in those sessions.”