Florio: Tom Brady is “Full of Sh-t” on Shedeur Sanders

One of the biggest storylines at this year’s draft was Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders sliding to the fifth round and there has been a lot of conversation around Tom Brady’s evaluation of Shedeur that he says never happened.

Brady has a relationship with the Sanders family, and it was eye opening to many that the Raiders passed on Shedeur so many times in the draft.

Brady was asked this week on the ‘Impaulsive’ podcast about Shedeur’s fall in the draft and his response was remarkably diplomatic.

“That’s a good question. I wasn’t a part of any evaluation process,” Brady said after an awkward pause.

“I actually texted Shedeur because I know him very well and I said ‘Dude, whatever happens, wherever you go, that’s your first day. Day 2 matters more than the draft. I was [pick] 199. Who could speak on it better than me? Use that as motivation. You’re going to get your chances. Go take advantage of them.’”

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It was hardly a professional sales job by Brady, and NBC Sports’ host Mike Florio commented on Brady’s remarks on Wednesday.

From Florio via PFT Live:

“Brady is very unconvincing as he stammers and stutters his way through until he gets to, it’s a good question… Anyone who remembers the initial Deflategate press conference, Tom Brady is a horrible liar, which is good. I’d rather deal with somebody who’s a horrible liar than a really good liar, because with a really good liar, it’s like trying to figure out what owes the mentalist is up to.

With a bad liar, we at least know he’s full of sh*t. He kind of knows he’s full of sh*t, but he’s saying what he has to say, and we can make sense of it. He doesn’t want to affect his relationship with Shedeur Sanders. Of course, he was involved in the evaluation of the quarterbacks. Of course, Tom Brady. That’s one of the reasons why he has a sweetheart deal, to buy the team for peanuts in comparison to its market value.”

Assuming Florio is correct, and most would presumably agree with him…

Why did Brady, who knows Shedeur better than most, pass on the “second best quarterback in this year’s rookie class” nine times in the draft?

x: @raidersbeat

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Mike Florio and Chris Simms react to Tom Brady saying that he was not involved in the evaluation of QB Shedeur Sanders and explain why they don’t believe the Las Vegas Raiders minority owner.