{"id":301993,"date":"2026-07-21T18:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301993\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:05:11","slug":"ex-jets-star-bart-scott-out-as-part-of-espn-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301993\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Jets star Bart Scott out as part of ESPN layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Jets star Bart Scott has been fired by ESPN as part of their massive layoffs, per multiple reports.<\/p>\n

Scott, 45, has worked as an NFL analyst for the sports media company for some time, appearing on ESPN\u2019s \u201cGet Up\u201d and co-hosting an ESPN New York radio show with his former WFAN partner, Chris Carlin.<\/p>\n

Carlin as of now will have a solo show weekdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., according to The Athletic\u2019s Andrew Marchand.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer NFL Player Bart Scott speaks during an interview on Radio Row at the NFL Media Center. AP<\/p>\n

ESPN launched its first major round of firings in three years Tuesday, largely due to \u201credundancies\u201d from the acquisition of NFL Network and NFL RedZone.<\/p>\n

Six months ago, Disney bought the distribution rights to both networks in exchange for a 10 percent ownership stake in ESPN.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past several months, we\u2019ve made significant progress integrating the NFL assets that we acquired into ESPN,\u201d ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in an internal memo obtained by Front Office Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout this process, we have taken the time to carefully evaluate our collective teams, resources and organizational structure to best position us for the future. As a result, we had to make some difficult decisions about job impacts that we will be communicating today.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile most of the job impacts are tied to the acquisition, we will also notify colleagues in other parts of the company today that their positions have been impacted. We are committed to treating employees with compassion and respect and to providing support as they navigate this transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven in moments like these, the strength of ESPN comes from our people, our teamwork and our shared mission to serve sports fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewNew York Jets linebacker Bart Scott gestures during the first half of an NFL football game against the San Diego Chargers. AP<\/p>\n

Scott is just one of many firings that have caused a stir, including Ryan Clark<\/a>, Cam Newton, Karl Ravech<\/a> and Tom Pelissero.<\/p>\n

Clark was controversially fired during \u201cNFL Live\u201d on Monday. He found out during a break in the show and did not return to the program.<\/p>\n

ESPN later promoted a clip of Clark<\/a> discussing tight end Isaiah Likely possibly becoming a key component for the Giants, right before he was told of the layoff.<\/p>\n

Clark posted on social media Tuesday morning<\/a>, addressing the incident and showing \u201cproof of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSending prayers and love to all those laid off today by ESPN,\u201d he wrote<\/a> on Instagram. \u201cSo many of you have poured your life into that company, & I know how you\u2019re feeling right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is as this door closes another opens for you all. God bless!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Jets star Bart Scott has been fired by ESPN as part of their massive layoffs, per multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39872,3080,9,11,430,10,22,319,2085,6475],"class_list":["post-301993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bart-scott","tag-espn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-jets","tag-new-york-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-sports-entertainment","tag-sports-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}