Deion Sanders defended Shilo Sanders just like Shilo Sanders defended Shedeur Sanders.
At least Deion did it without a hint of misogyny.
Commenting on Shilo’s recent social-media feud with Browns beat writer Mary Kay Cabot, Deion said his one son was just sticking up for his younger brother after Cabot opined that the team should name Deshaun Watson over Shedeur as the starting quarterback as soon as possible.
“We don’t talk about nobody,” Deion said on “The Barbershop” with Garrett Bush, as transcribed by Pro Football Talk. “We don’t do nothing to nobody. I know Shilo had a little altercation that he spoke up for his brother. You’ve got to understand, man, that’s his brother.
“And, God bless Mary Kay’s soul, that’s his brother. I mean, she said something, he said something, like media is different today. I know a lot of people don’t respect the old school. I do, because I grew up in that era that we didn’t have a say so … But Shilo spoke up for his brother, and he was ridiculed for that.”
Of course, Shilo, who was in training camp with the Buccaneers as a rookie last season, wasn’t criticized for defending his brother.
It was the implication behind his words when he told Cabot of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer to “Go make a sandwich Mary” on “X.”
Shilo and Shedeur were teammates at Colorado under Deion as head coach.
Shedeur threw seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions in seven starts for the Browns last season while Watson was sidelined.
Watson, Sanders, Dillon Gabriel and rookie Taylen Green are part of a crowded quarterback room during OTAs.
“If it’s reported, it’s reported,” Shilo later wrote about Cabot, defending himself. “You have facts, you have news. But when it comes to your opinion, you’ve been saying crazy things for the past — since he’s been there. So it’s like, just chill with that. Because it don’t make no sense, and it makes you look crazy like you don’t know what you’re talking about.
“And for all the women that actually take the time to go do their research and actually be real reporters and real journalists, then that’s gonna make them look bad, because you already know as a woman in this field of reporting football and sports, like, it’s hard. So don’t make it hard on everybody, just because you don’t feel like it.”
Cabot is the most recent recipient of the Bill Nunn Memorial Award presented by the Pro Football Writers Association for a “long and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
