Charles Barkley rips Skip Bayless’ ‘asinine’ Tom Brady-Bill Belichick take

Charles Barkley’s opinion of Skip Bayless still hasn’t changed — and the latest development in their feud involved Barkley blasting the “Undisputed” host’s “asinine” take about Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and the Patriots dynasty.

During a segment on Friday’s edition of “The Dan Patrick Show,” Barkley brought up a comment from Bayless where he allegedly said, “Bill only won championships because of Tom Brady.”

It’s unclear when Bayless made the comment that Barkley referenced, but he recently labeled Belichick — who parted ways with the Patriots following the 2023 season and hasn’t landed a job for the 2024 season — as a “glorified defensive coordinator” during a Jan. 25 segment with Keyshawn Johnson and Michael Irvin, according to Awful Announcing.

The Brady-Belichick debate has emerged as the ultimate question about the era in New England that featured six Super Bowl titles, given that Brady left and won another with the Buccaneers while Belichick compiled a 29-39 record, including a wild-card loss after the future Hall of Famer left for Tampa.

Barkley told Patrick that he didn’t think the criticism aimed at Belichick “ain’t right,” since Brady didn’t coach the Patriots’ defense or special teams.

He added that Andy Reid, who recently won his third title since taking over as the Chiefs’ coach, has become “a great coach,” but Barkley questioned how many championships the 65-year-old would’ve won without Patrick Mahomes — who recently won his latest Super Bowl MVP award — at quarterback.

“When you get on television, our job is to be fair and objective,” Barkley said. “And we got some clowns on television now who are like, ‘Belichick is overrated.’ Dude went to nine Super Bowls. There’s nobody who went to nine Super Bowls who’s overrated.”

Patrick, at one point during Barkley’s answer, asked why the NBA Hall of Famer still watches shows such as “Undisputed,” and Barkley claimed that he doesn’t — and that people just send him clips of the “hot takes.”

Barkley’s hatred of Bayless has been well-documented.

He called him a “punk-a–” in 2021, someone who “cherry-picks the guys he likes and the guys he don’t like.”

Barkley has poked fun at Bayless multiple times on the “NBA on TNT” set, including once in 2022 when Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal mocked a debate that escalated between Bayless and former “Undisputed” co-host Shannon Sharpe.

Then, Bayless responded in July by calling Barkley a “clown” and saying on his podcast that he’d be his “dream debate partner” to replace Sharpe on “Undisputed” — since “all I’d have to do is let Charles go first and listen to him make a fool out of himself.”

And this time, during the interview with Patrick, Barkley used the phrase “hate him with every fiber” to describe his relationship — or lack thereof — with Bayless.

“Sometimes, he makes me want to gain weight back so I can hate him with even more weight,” Barkley told Patrick.