Skip Bayless blasted Tom Brady’s performance as an announcer with FOX Sports, giving him the brutal nickname ‘Capt. Obvious’ after he called his fifth game of the season
Skip Bayless is clearly not a fan of Tom Brady’s performance in the broadcasting booth.
On Sunday, Brady called his fifth NFL game for FOX Sports, serving as an announcer alongside Kevin Burkhardt during the San Francisco 49ers matchup against the Arizona Cardinals. It didn’t take long for the former quarterback to provide a viral moment.
With just over 13 minutes remaining in the first quarter, Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray faked a handoff and snaked through 49ers defenders on a 50-yard touchdown run. Brady could hardly hide his excitement, repeatedly shouting “Oh!” as the play progressed.
Prior to kickoff, Brady additionally shared unique insight into 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy’s first start in the NFL, which came against him and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2022. “Oh, we got a shot today, [facing] Mr. Irrelevant,” he remembered thinking at the time.
“I’m sitting on the sideline like, ‘How is Mr. Irrelevant carving us up?’ and ‘Is our defense that bad?’ And it turns out that Brock is just that good; he really is. Total command, just an awesome player throwing with anticipation. His team believes in him.”
With each passing week, Brady appears to be growing more confident in his new role – though Bayless has been less than impressed with his commentary. Taking to social media, the 72-year-old brutally nicknamed the longtime New England Patriot ‘Capt. Obvious.’
Skip Bayless has repeatedly called out Tom Brady early on in his broadcasting career ( Image: Getty Images)
“I’ve been listening to 49ers-Cardinals commentary by Capt. Obvious … who just talks and talks more and more obvious,” he wrote on X.
This is hardly the first time that Bayless has taken aim at Brady. Last month, the ex-FOX employee argued that he simply doesn’t have what it takes to be a successful NFL announcer.
“Analyzing games on the fly on live network television, Tom so far is just another sixth round draft pick,” he said on ‘The Skip Bayless Show’. “And I am not sure you’ll get a whole lot better. So Sunday, I listened to Brady for a full game, his second as a broadcaster. Then I listened to Tony Romo for a full game … I was stunned at how much more X and O insight and enlightenment Tony Romo provided instantaneously than Captain Obvious Brady did.
“This is something I’d say I have a pretty good feel for because over the last, what, 20 years, I’ve worked with hundreds of ex-star athletes on live national television testing their split second ability to talk the game they played at such a high level. You’d be shocked at how many just can’t. They just played.
“Romo, the undrafted free agent, played with his mind,” Bayless continued. “It’s possible that Tom Brady, the most accurate passer I ever saw, played more with feel and instincts that are extremely difficult to verbalize and explain on the fly. Maybe Brady’s football genius is just too complex for public consumption
“Or maybe Brady spent so many years under Belichick learning to publicly guard what he was really thinking that now Brady’s having trouble spilling the beans on national TV. Maybe he’s just patting us all on the head with all his gee whizzy manby pamby plain vanilla cliches.
“Maybe he’s just saying between the lines, I can’t really go deep on this stuff with so many morons listening.”