Things got heated between ESPN’s Ryan Clark and Peter Schrager on Friday.
During an episode of “Get Up,” the 2 got right into a nasty debate while discussing Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb’s game against the Eagles on Thursday.
While the roundtable was debating Lamb’s drop-filled performance, Clark — a former NFL safety and Super Bowl champion — got here at Schrager, an analyst, calling him a “non-player.”
“We shouldn’t do that on TV, so I apologize if people think that is rude, but that’s the non-player in you,” Clark said.
Schrager, who was hired by ESPN in April following a decade-long run on NFL Network, quickly interjected, saying, “Don’t belittle me like that, I can come and say as three ex-players are saying one thing, and provides an alternate perspective.”
“Peter, what I would like so that you can do shouldn’t be get mad and let me finish,” Clark responded.
The spat between the 2 reportedly also spilled off the air, resulting in an “uncomfortable” confrontation on the set of the show, based on Front Office Sports.
Clark later confirmed that his beef with Schrager also occurred off-set in an apology posted on X in a while Friday.
“Today, I had an interaction with my colleague @PSchrags each on and off the air that I regret,” Clark wrote. “I actually have apologized to Peter and brought accountability with ESPN leadership. I value working with Peter and stay up for this season.
“My focus will remain on professionalism, teamwork, and being a greater teammate moving forward.”
This confrontation is the most recent of multiple disputes Clark has been involved in each on and off of ESPN.
Last week, Clark was under fire on social media for declaring that Tom Brady was not a generational talent.
“I believe John Elway was a generational talent. I believe Patrick Mahomes is a generational talent. I don’t think Tom Brady, I don’t think Drew Brees, I don’t think Peyton Manning are generational talents,” Clark said on “Get Up.”
Clark also apologized earlier this yr to ex-NFL quarterback Robert Griffin III’s wife, Grete, for bringing her right into a beef between the previous teammates about Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, which quickly transformed into an argument about Griffin’s interracial marriage.
“She mustn’t have been brought up in me attempting to make some extent about how having black women near you and the things which you could learn from them can show you how to approach the way you speak to, and about them,” Clark said of Grete, who’s white. “She didn’t must be the illustration of that. I could speak positively about what they’re without making the insinuations that it’s something that non-black women don’t do well.”
