Tim Brando to fill in for Adam Amin alongside Drew Brees on Fox’s Jets-Bears broadcast

Baseball’s October calendar will cost Drew Brees his play-by-play partner for at least one Sunday.

With Adam Amin headed to Fox’s MLB postseason coverage, Tim Brando will step in alongside Brees and sideline reporter Kristina Pink to call the Jets and Bears in Week 4, according to Chicago Sun-Times writer Jeff Agrest.

TIM BRANDO will join Drew Brees and Kristina Pink to call Jets-#DaBears in Week 4. Brando will fill in for Adam Amin, who’ll be calling the MLB playoffs. https://t.co/bxeft2h34Z

— Jeff Agrest #🟦 (@JeffAgrest) September 23, 2026

Amin and Brees have been paired for every one of their Fox broadcasts this season, opening with Bears-Panthers in Week 1 before calling Eagles-Titans in Week 2, where Brees took issue with Jalen Hurts’ running style and urged the quarterback to lower his shoulder and fight for the first down rather than slide, since the ball gets spotted where the slide begins. They’ll call Jets-Lions this Sunday, which means Brees and Pink will be seeing both the Jets and Bears for the second time this season once Brando slides into the booth.

The partnership dates back to last season, when Fox brought Brees in midseason to replace Mark Sanchez and placed him on its No. 3 crew with Amin. Brees had not called an NFL game since his lone season at NBC ended in 2021, but his return drew far better reviews, with Amin telling the Awful Announcing Podcast in December that Brees wanted to be “one of the best, if not the best” at the job. Fox kept the duo intact for 2026, Brees’ first full season in its booth, and the newly enshrined Hall of Famer has since added a co-hosting role on SiriusXM’s Let’s Go!

Amin’s absence is a familiar byproduct of his dual role at Fox. Since arriving from ESPN in 2020, he has become a mainstay of the network’s MLB rotation and a fixture of its October coverage, anchoring Division Series broadcasts alongside A.J. Pierzynski and Adam Wainwright nearly every postseason. That trio called Astros-White Sox in 2021, Astros-Twins in 2023, and Phillies-Mets in 2024 before delivering last year’s instant classic, a 15-inning Game 5 between the Mariners and Tigers, which Amin turned into a star-making performance with a string of electric calls.

Because Fox’s October slate runs through the NLDS this year, Amin’s baseball duties should pull him away from the NFL for just one Sunday. With Joe Davis and John Smoltz locked into Fox’s NLCS and World Series coverage, Amin is all but certain to take Davis’ seat alongside Greg Olsen on the network’s No. 2 crew, leaving Brees without his regular partner for the better part of October and positioning Brando to remain at his side for the foreseeable future.

Brando, meanwhile, will be making his second NFL appearance of the season after working Panthers-Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Week 2 alongside Matt Millen and Sarah Kustok. Pro football is hardly uncharted territory for the 70-year-old, who spent six seasons calling NFL games for CBS from 1998 to 2003, part of a sprawling run at the network that also included college basketball play-by-play and hosting duties on College Football Today. He eventually landed at Fox in 2014 after lengthy stints at both ESPN and CBS, and he marked his 40th year on national television in 2025. College football remains his primary beat. In April, Brando signed a multiyear extension that will carry him to 15 years with Fox, per Front Office Sports’ Michael McCarthy, and he has spent this fall leading one of the network’s college football crews alongside Devin Gardner and Josh Sims.

Nearly a decade ago, when Fox asked Brando where he saw himself, he pitched the network on making him its Verne Lundquist, the veteran voice at the center of its college football coverage. Thirteen seasons in, that’s more or less what he’s become.