Skip Bayless and Tom Brady find themselves in a spat about Shedeur Sanders. It all started with Sanders’ slide in the 2025 NFL Draft, with Bayless accusing Brady of playing a role in holding the Raiders back from drafting Sanders higher.
Brady has since responded, claiming that the media were saying things without providing any proof or evidence. Now, the sports media personality has responded to the indirect callout.
Skip Bayless Responds to Tom Brady’s Defense
Speaking in a lengthy 25-minute rant posted on Twitter/X on May 9, Bayless went scorched earth on the former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback turned general manager of the Las Vegas Raiders. The comments were a rebuttal to what Brady had said previously.
I CALL BS ON TOM BRADY pic.twitter.com/GPcLpD0r5p
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) May 9, 2025
0:00 “Tom Brady has called me out. I guess he’s called me a liar. So I’m about to call BS on Tom Brady, because Tom, you know and I know everything I said about you and Shedeur Sanders is obviously exactly right,” he said.
4:01 “Tom Brady mentored and coached Shedeur Sanders all the way up through high school and into college, and through college. Mentored and coached. Nobody out there, outside of Shedeur’s family, knows his game and his nature, his tangibles and his intangibles better than Tom Brady, so we’re to believe that nobody in the Raiders organization at any point in time before the draft said, ‘Hey Tom, what’s your opinion of Shedeur?”
“And by the way, the Raiders did need a quarterback desperately badly, desperately badly before they went out and acquired Geno Smith. But my point is at no point neither Pete Carroll nor John Spytek nor Mark Davis said, ‘Hey, Tom, give us your take on Shedeur’? Stop it. Tom, quit lying to us Tom, quit dodging the truth, Tom, I’m just gonna say I’m calling b******* on you, because that’s utter b*******. The Raiders would be fools if they didn’t ask you your opinion of Shedeur.”
The rant is just another chapter in one of the last loose threads of the Sanders slide drama. The prank call appears to have been wrapped up, but the mystery and accusations hurled at the former quarterback continue.
One Potential Defense That Could Excuse Brady From Further Accusations
While the question of the effect Brady had on Sanders’ slide past the Raiders appears on track to devolve into he said/she said, one defense could block Brady from further overwhelming attention.
The Raiders were just one of 32 teams that declined to draft the quarterback. A total of 31 other teams declined Sanders multiple times before he was picked 144th overall. While the Cleveland Browns eventually picked him, they were also guilty of declining several times.
As such, there were many more minds than Brady that declined to draft the quarterback earlier. The Steelers decided to take their chances with the players they had, and potentially Aaron Rodgers, over Sanders.
The New York Giants picked Jaxson Dart over Sanders, another prime example of another team having a preference for another player. Sanders fell low enough that teams who hadn’t considered a rookie quarterback should have had interest if he was indeed a player with a first-round grade.
Put simply, the mock drafts had it wrong, with all 32 general managers viewing the quarterback in a much lesser light than expected. The 2025 and 2026 seasons give Sanders the ability to respond.
Were the general managers wrong or right?