During an episode of \u201cGet Up\u201d in September<\/a>, as panelists discussed the Cowboys\u2019 season-opening game against the Eagles and the performance of CeeDee Lamb,\u201d Clark told colleague Peter Schrager \u201cthat\u2019s the non-player in you\u201d when the latter defended Lamb.<\/p>\n\u201cDon\u2019t belittle me like that,\u201d Schrager said. \u201cI can come and say as three ex-players are saying one thing, and give an alternate perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ryan Clark was laid off by ESPN Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cPeter, what I need for you to do is not get mad and let me finish,\u201d Clark responded, and the confrontation reportedly continued while off the air.<\/p>\n
Clark posted an apology on X later in the day. Before he inked his current deal with ESPN in 2024, Clark posted about his last contract being up, about wanting to prove that he was worth more and about needing to make a decision.<\/p>\n
Back in early 2015, once his playing career that started as an undrafted free agent ended, Clark joined ESPN as an NFL analyst, and he appeared on a variety of shows throughout the network. <\/p>\n
Ryan Clark is being let go by ESPN Getty Images for Fanatics<\/p>\n
He was a staple on \u201cNFL Live,\u201d \u201cFirst Take,\u201d \u201cSportsCenter\u201d and \u201cGetUp.\u201d Just Monday, during his final on-air appearance with the network, Clark discussed Giants running back Cam Skattebo, the Cowboys and Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to see that Jayden, even with the success of Year 1, going back to some of the basics that got him here,\u201d Clark said to close his answer on Daniels before the network went to a commercial break only Kimes, Rutledge and Schefter remained the next time the separate video squares appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For most of \u201cNFL Live\u201d Monday, Ryan Clark was pictured in one of four video squares across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,794,1685,593,85,9274,5999],"class_list":["post-813285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-espn","tag-media","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}