NFL Free Agent Shilo Sanders Under Fire for Telling Female Reporter to ‘Go Make a Sandwich’

NFL free agent Shilo Sanders is facing some heat for a comment he made on Instagram to Cleveland Browns beat reporter Mary Kay Cabot.

“Go make a sandwich Mary,” he wrote under a video shared by the Cleveland Plain Dealer on Wednesday, April 29. In the video, Cabot, 64, argued the Browns should make Deshaun Watson their starting quarterback over Shilo’s brother, Shedeur Sanders. (Shilo, 26, and Shedeur, 24, are the sons of legendary NFL star Deion Sanders.)

Cabot addressed the comment the next day in an appearance on 92.3 The Fan.

“Well, let me just say about that, that I really do believe that I’ve been an inspiration for lots of women and young girls to know that you can go out there and do a good job in a man’s world and take on all of that that comes with that,” Cabot said.

Cabot has covered the Browns since 1988 and became the Plain Dealer’s beat reporter for the team in 1991.

She continued, “And I know that there are so many women who have joined the football world, especially because of things I’ve been able to do over the years, and I’m happy about that, and I know that will continue.”

“I have been able to set the tone and open some doors in that way and that will continue,” Cabot added.

Related to Shilo’s comment specifically, Cabot teased, “I can make a mean grilled cheese with ham.”

Shilo remained unimpressed, taking to Twitch on Thursday, April 30, to double down on his comments.

“This is to Mary Kay: If you’re gonna be a reporter, be a reporter and report facts,” he said. “Whenever you have your opinion, and your opinion is always something hateful to Shedeur, then it makes it seem like it’s something weird, like, it’s an agenda you have going on.”

Shilo continued, “There is plenty of women in this field that take this serious and take reporting on football serious and actually do homework and study the game and get the statistics right and get the news right. But with you, it’s so much emotion that I don’t want you to make women look bad when it comes to reporting because you don’t have the will to actually want to report real things that are going on.”

He added that he believes Cabot is making other women reporters look bad because they put in the work necessary to do the job while he alleged she does not.

“When it comes to your opinion, you’ve been saying crazy things for the past, since he’s been there,” Shilo said. “So it’s like, just chill with that ’cause it don’t make no sense, and it makes you look crazy, like you don’t know what you’re talking about.”