Shedeur Sanders' NFL Draft fall led Deion to cry for first time since 1997 suicide attempt, Skip Bayless says

Shedeur Sanders' humiliating tumble from a projected first-round prime successful past month's NFL Draft to the Cleveland Browns with the 144th enactment led his fiercely arrogant begetter Deion to outcry for conscionable the 2nd clip successful his big life.

As a sources adjacent to the Sanders household told FanDuel podcaster Skip Bayless, the 57-year-old Hall-of-Fame cornerback and Colorado caput manager had not cried since his antecedently revealed termination effort successful 1997. The two-sport star's archetypal matrimony was coming to an extremity arsenic helium was attempting an MLB comeback with the Cincinnati Reds; and successful the midst of his depression, Deion drove his car disconnected a steep cliff, lone to past without immoderate life-threatening injuries.

Since then, the elder Sanders has dedicated himself to his Christian religion and focused connected raising his children, respective of whom helium coached erstwhile they played precocious schoolhouse shot successful the Dallas area. Shedeur and his member Shilo some went connected to play for 'Coach Prime' astatine Jackson State and Colorado earlier declaring for the NFL Draft, wherever Shilo would spell unselected. (He has since signed with Tampa arsenic an undrafted escaped agent)

As always, Deion remained his sons' biggest cheerleader passim the pre-draft process. But erstwhile the Buffaloes manager told podcaster and erstwhile ESPN prima Dan Patrick that determination were 'a batch of teams' Shedeur didn't privation to play for, NFL insiders decided to thatch 'Deion and his lad a lesson,' according to Bayless.

'He wouldn't sanction the teams, but helium said helium would assistance navigate his lad to the champion acceptable for his lad astatine the apical of the draft,' Bayless said earlier referencing a akin concern with retired New Orleans Saints backmost Archie Manning and his highly touted son, Eli, earlier the 2004 NFL Draft.

'So yeah, Deion indicated he'd spell Archie Manning connected the draft,' Bayless said, recalling the elder Manning's efforts to forestall the Chargers from taking his lad with the apical pick. 'Remember Archie erstwhile navigated Eli retired of San Diego to New York and the Giants. I inactive believe, arsenic I said before, that that interview, those statements, were what astir turned the NFL against Shedeur and Deion.

'That Deion dared to comparison himself and his concern to the beloved archetypal household of football, the Mannings, that's erstwhile I judge the NFL beauteous overmuch said successful colluding unison: ''Oh yeah, ticker this Deion.'''

Bayless claims helium isn't unsocial successful this belief. In fact, helium thinks Deion realized this during the draft, which is wherefore helium recovered himself crying implicit Shedeur's tumble from Day 1 to Day 3.

'That's wherefore Deion cried aft the draught due to the fact that helium realized he'd conscionable talked excessively much, excessively positively much, astir his son's imaginable greatness; that he, Deion, inspired excessively overmuch jealousy and excessively overmuch resentment and that that helium helped enactment his lad done a three-day ringer of shame.

'I mean helium is Deion Sanders, Neon Deion, Coach Prime, thing helium says volition deed with 10 tons much interaction than immoderate different manager successful this country,' Bayless continued. 'I'm talking assemblage oregon pro coach. Deion knows that for a fact, truthful helium cried implicit what his lad had to endure implicit those 3 days, 2 nights and a day.'

Bayless past turned his absorption backmost to an earlier topic: His content that Las Vegas Raiders number proprietor and Shedeur mentor Tom Brady told his team's beforehand bureau not to draught his erstwhile pupil.

The erstwhile sixth-round prime has denied having thing to bash with the Raiders' draught plans, but Bayless rejected that assertion portion calling Brady a 'two-faced hypocrite.'

'Now I'm hoping Shedeur Sanders proves Tom Brady astir arsenic incorrect arsenic Brady proved everyone who failed to draught him until the sixth round,' said Bayless.