Longtime Cleveland Browns reporter Mark Kay Cabot said last month that she believed the team should open the season with Deshaun Watson as their starting quarterback, over Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel. Doing so would allow the first-team offense to gel as much as possible.<\/p>\n
That prompted a response from Shedeur\u2019s brother and former Colorado Buffaloes teammate, Shilo, who wrote, \u201cGo make a sandwich, Mary,\u201d in response to a video of the comments. The rebuke from Shilo, who once compared himself to Donald Trump<\/a>, was widely condemned as misogynistic and unnecessary. He later went on Twitch and doubled down on his comment, criticizing Cabot for offering opinions and accusing her of holding something against Shedeur. He also accused her of not doing her research and making female sports reporters look bad.<\/p>\n Cabot, who was recently given the Bill Nunn Memorial Award<\/a>, presented by the Pro Football Writers Association, for a \u201clong and distinguished contribution to pro football through coverage,\u201d took the high road<\/a>.<\/p>\n Deion Sanders, Shedeur and Shilo\u2019s dad, finally waded into the morass, saying it was an older brother sticking up for his younger brother.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t talk about nobody,\u201d Deion said on The Barbershop<\/a> with Garrett Bush. \u201cWe don\u2019t do nothing to nobody. I know Shilo had a little altercation that he spoke up for his brother. You\u2019ve got to understand, man, that\u2019s his brother.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd, God bless Mary Kay\u2019s soul, that\u2019s his brother. I mean, she said something, he said something, like media is different today. I know a lot of people don\u2019t respect the old school. I do, because I grew up in that era that we didn\u2019t have a say so \u2026 But Shilo spoke up for his brother, and he was ridiculed for that.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether Deion was unaware of the specific comment Shilo made or was simply trying to sidestep it. Shilo\u2019s dad is making it sound like he was criticized over his explanation, which was not the case. It was the insulting language he used because he didn\u2019t agree with Cabot\u2019s take. The likely truth is that, if Cabot were male, Shilo would never have brought unnecessarily gendered insults into it.<\/p>\n The Sanders family has long had issues with being too online and creating drama for the sake of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n