Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders got the kind of attention they’ve been hoping to avoid last month when the future Hall of Famer was shown in the team’s coaches’ box during a “Monday Night Football” game.

Brady is currently juggling two roles as a high-priced color commentator for Fox Sports and a minority owner of the Raiders, which has raised conflict of interest concerns for many around the league. The most important question is what Brady actually does with the Raiders — he described his role in the past as a “long-term, kind of behind-the-scenes type role” but there have been reports to the contrary.

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Being shown with a headset on, advising the Raiders during the game didn’t help those concerns, to say the least. And it was all thanks to ESPN, a Fox Sports competitor, showing Brady on the MNF broadcast multiple times while reporting he has regular talks with offensive coordinator Chip Kelly.

According to ESPN broadcaster Joe Buck, there was some blowback over that decision to show Brady.

Appearing on “The Pivot” podcast this week, the veteran play-by-play man said he thought the visual was worse than the reality for the Raiders, but did mention the team had some behind-the-scene grievances for his peers:

“I think it was more perception of it, than reality … It was the visual. The last person I’m telling what to do is Tom Brady. But yeah, I thought the visibility – and I know they weren’t happy that that got out, but he’s in a booth with a headset on.

“We’re all at least smart enough to know that there are cameras everywhere, and they’re gonna find you. Cameras found him and then it became a big thing and then just like everything else in the world, it goes away five seconds later and everybody moves on.”

Buck expressed skepticism that Brady was building up any sort of competitive advantage for the Raiders, given the level of information available at the production meetings he was once banned from attending:

“That seemed a little too public to me. The headset with the Raiders. But I think the production meeting stuff is much ado about nothing .. The whole inside information, I don’t know what he’s going to get that’s going to help him as an executive for the Raiders. If other owners don’t like it, then I guess that’s their prerogative too.

Brady isn’t the first person to face these kinds of concerns — baseball saw a similar incident when the Los Angeles Dodgers objected to allowing ESPN color commentator Jessica Mendoza into their clubhouse when she was working as an advisor for the New York Mets. This is a far more public debate, though one that’s hardly stopping Brady from doing what he wants so far.