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That’s the precise moment when the line was crossed. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for television personalities screaming and yelling at each other, it gets ratings. But taking personal shots at your colleague to defend a QB that hasn’t even been on your show? Lame as hell.

To be clear, Brady is one of the greatest football players ever, but so was Shannon Sharpe. In his 14-year NFL career, Shannon was named to the Pro Bowl eight times, first-team All-Pro four times and won the Super Bowl three times. He was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2011 and is unequivocally one of the greatest tight ends of all time.

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Nobody in their right mind should be disrespecting Shannon’s football career, especially a man who infamously averaged 1.4 points as a junior on a high school junior varsity basketball team. If you want to criticize him for his opinions on HBCUs, go right ahead, but nobody should question his sports accolades.

Shannon did not deserve that level of disrespect from Skip and he’s lucky Shannon didn’t jump over the table and beat his ass for the disrespect uttered out of his mouth. Obviously, there would’ve been some criticism aimed at Shannon, but you wouldn’t hear it coming from me.