Over the years, former FS1 personality Skip Bayless hasn’t been shy about his belief that Tom Brady is the greatest football player of all time. But to say that Bayless hasn’t been a fan of Brady’s post-playing career venture as a Fox NFL analyst would be a giant understatement.
“So little insight, so many words.”
Naturally, Brady’s broadcasting career has been under a microscope since day one at Fox. And he has faced his fair share of issues, admittedly still figuring out what NFL audiences are looking for from him.
Being thrown into a role on Fox’s top broadcast team is not coming as easy to Brady as playing quarterback in the NFL did. But Bayless is seemingly even less impressed than he anticipated about how Brady has done in the booth thus far.
“Alright, good news, Sunday’s Cowboys game is on CBS not on Fox,” said Bayless on Monday’s edition of his podcast, the Skip Bayless Show. “So we get Tony Romo instead of Tom Brady. As I have said 12 trillion times, Tom Brady was the greatest NFL player ever by far. But as a TV analyst, he’s nothing but Daniel Jones. I’m sorry, but Tom Brady drove me nuts yesterday during the Detroit-Green Bay game with his endless, giddy, captain-obvious blabber.
“He just talks and talks and talks some more about what is so clichedly obvious. So annoyingly obvious, so Patriots-Brady talking to the media obvious. So eager to be nice guy Tom obvious. So little insight, so many words. So many close-ups. ‘Hi, I’m Tom Brady’. Yeah, we know, unfortunately, we know, Tom.”
Bayless is far from the only media personality who has been critical of Brady’s on-air performance. And the specific complaint of Brady largely failing to convey the obvious knowledge he has about the sport to viewers listening at home has been a pretty common one amongst media pundits.
We’ve seen in the past with Drew Brees’ brief tenure at NBC that an excellent NFL career as a quarterback is not always a guaranteed meal ticket to becoming a great broadcaster. So only time will tell whether Brady will one day grow into the popular broadcast Fox was hoping they would be getting.
But for someone like Bayless, who has supported Brady time and time again over the course of his playing career, to be this against Brady as a broadcaster should tell you that the seven-time Super Bowl champion has a long way to go in the booth.