Skip Bayless has offered a blistering critique of Tom Brady’s broadcasting talents as he called the Patriots legend ‘Captain Obvious’ and ‘vanilla.’
Brady, who is in the second year of a reported $375million contract with Fox Sports, has continued to earn mixed reviews for his on-air analysis.
And after Bayless slammed Brady as a ‘two-faced hypocrite’ back in May, the commentator has once again taken aim at the legendary quarterback.
‘The more I listen to Tom Brady, the worse it gets,’ Bayless said on his eponymous show.
‘He is all-time ‘Captain Obvious.’ He is vanilla extract, he tells me nothing I can’t see with my own two eyes. And I do know football, because I’ve been doing this a long time, and I learned from Don Shula and I learned from Bill Walsh and I learned from Tom Landry and I learned from Jimmy Johnson. I did.
‘…But Tom never tells me anything that I say: ‘Oh, I didn’t think of that,” he continued. ‘Tony Romo, always, Tony Romo takes stands. Tom can’t say anything bad. You cannot as an owner criticize anything on the football field, not referees, not players, not coaches, cannot criticize. So it just vanillas you out.’
Skip Bayless has branded Tom Brady ‘Captain Obvious’ and ‘vanilla’ as a broadcaster
Brady has significant restrictions on his broadcasting career due to his minority ownership of the Raiders
Brady has courted plenty of controversy due to his simultaneous roles as Fox’s lead game analyst and a minority owner of the Raiders, with the latter role placing significant restrictions on his broadcasting career.
Brady cannot actually visit other teams’ facilities in the buildup to games (as is typically customary of broadcasters), nor can criticize referees or other franchises.
He was also initially banned from attending production meetings last year, though the NFL tweaked their rules for him in the offseason, allowing him to attend such meetings in a remote fashion.
Nonetheless, the sight of him sitting in the Raiders’ coaching booth with a headset on last month raised eyebrows, and questions of how involved he truly is with the Las Vegas franchise.
Back in May, Brady denied having involvement in the Raiders’ draft planning, while The Ringer’s Todd McShay actually said that Brady was ‘heavily involved’ in the process.
Bayless, too, did not believe that Brady was uninvolved with the process, and accused him of instructing the team’s front office to ignore Shedeur Sanders in the draft.
Brady has been Fox’s top game analyst alongside Kevin Burkhardt since last season
Brady raised eyebrows when he was spotted sitting among the coaching staff of the Raiders earlier this season
Brady has mentored Sanders since his high school days and admitted to texting him in the days after his surprising slide to the fifth round of the draft.
‘Yeah, they’d be absolute fools not to ask Tom Brady about quarterbacks,’ Bayless, said on his FanDuel show, while pointing out that Brady’s ex-college teammate, John Spytek, is the team’s general manager.
‘So, Tom Brady wants us to believe his good friend Spytek – who also was an executive with the Bucs when Tom won the Super Bowl down in Tampa – that that GM of the Raiders wouldn’t ask him as a Raiders owner one thing about Shedeur?’ Bayless continued.
‘Yeah right Tom.’
Whether or not Brady has been heavily involved with the Raiders, the team has gotten off to a rough start this season.
Las Vegas is 1-4 after a 40-6 loss to the Colts last weekend, and quarterback Geno Smith leads the NFL with nine interceptions.
They’ll hope to get back on track against the Titans.
