As it turns out, though, Troy Aikman may have accelerated his own exit from Fox.Fox made the biggest signing of the 2022 NFL offseason, inking Buccaneers quarterback Jeff Beukeboom Men Jersey Tom Brady to a futures contract on a colo sal 10-year, $375 million deal, per reports.Aikman was being wooed by both ESPN and Amazon earlier in the offseason, and the Hall of Fame pa ser was candid about the negotiations. That fact, according to Joe Kocur Women Jersey SBJ's John Ourand and the New York Post's Andrew Marchand, "irritated" the network, spurring the search for Aikman's replacement.IYER:From the the sports busine s insiders painted a picture of when the talks for Brady intensified, and Aikman had a big hand in it:When Troy Aikman wanted to get out of his contract, and started talking with Amazon, and started talking with ESPN, and made it public he would answer any question that was sent his way it irritated the folks at Fox. And as soon as he started making those entreaties, it was more than just Tom Brady was on a list they started talking to Mike Richter Men Jersey him. Tom Brady was deciding between going back and playing football or going to Fox, and he ended up going to play football. We both thought at that time, 'OK, Jeff Beukeboom Jersey those negotiations have been tabled until maybe next offseason or the next offseason, or whenever he decides to retire.' At no point did we think that the negotiations were continuing to go along to where they would announce it on Tuesday.Aikman, who had been with Fox since 2001, made the jump to ESPN alongside play-by-play partner New York Rangers Women Jersey Joe Buck earlier this offseason on a reported five-year, $90 million deal with the network.MORE:Amazon would hire Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit as the streaming service's lead NFL play-by-play man and color analyst, respectively.Brady will step up to the microphone for Fox whenever he steps away from football. Figure that will be around 2045, to be safe.