NFL analyst Peter Schrager has hit the ground running since joining ESPN earlier this year. On Friday, he ran into a speed bump in the form of fellow NFL analyst Ryan Clark during an uncomfortable exchange on Get Up.<\/p>\n
The Get Up studio crew, which included Schrager, Clark, Dan Orlovsky, Tedy Bruschi, and host Mike Greenberg, was having an animated discussion about Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb\u2019s performance against the Philadelphia Eagles. While he put up a solid night on the stat sheet (7 catches for 110 yards), several crucial drops<\/a> hurt Dallas late in the game, which they lost 24-20.<\/p>\n Schrager was attempting to defend Lamb, saying that he had a much better night than Eagles wideout A.J. Brown, who only had one reception for eight yards, when Clark chimed in.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know what you wake up saying, though? A.J. Brown\u2019s team is 1-0,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course,\u201d added Schrager.<\/p>\n That\u2019s when Clark chimed in and took things in a more personal direction.<\/p>\n Ryan Clark: \u201cThat\u2019s the non-player in you\u201d<\/p>\n Peter Schrager: \u201cDon\u2019t belittle me like that, I can come and say as three ex-players are saying one thing, and give an alternative perspective\u201d<\/p>\n Ryan Clark: \u201cPeter, what I need for you to do is not get mad and let me finish\u201d pic.twitter.com\/zbBXdNPQaI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe thing is this, though. And we shouldn\u2019t do this on TV. So, I apologize if people think this is rude \u2014 that\u2019s the non-player in you.\u201d<\/p>\n Schrager didn\u2019t appreciate the perceived dig.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not looking at fantasy football. Ryan, don\u2019t belittle me like that,\u201d Schrager said. \u201cI can come in, as three ex-players are saying one thing, and give an alternative that maybe CeeDee Lamb did play well.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I need you to do is to not get mad and let me finish for one,\u201d Clark responded. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about you, it was going to be about me. I can\u2019t speak for CeeDee Lamb; I\u2019m speaking for me.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I go out and I have 12 tackles and I get two interceptions, and then there\u2019s a run late in the game that I miss a tackle and the other team wins the game, I\u2019m not talking to my family on the way home. They\u2019re not calling me as I\u2019m walking to the car. My wife is telling people\u2014because we\u2019ve been through it before\u2014you do not speak if he doesn\u2019t speak.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying that CeeDee Lamb can\u2019t play. I\u2019m not saying that you\u2019re wrong for defending him. I\u2019m talking from the perspective that I know CeeDee Lamb feels. That\u2019s why I prefaced it by saying, \u2018This is not about you. I\u2019m not trying to be rude.\u2019 I\u2019m not saying you don\u2019t understand, but what I\u2019m saying is I fully understand.\u201d<\/p>\n Greenberg summed things up as a voice of reason, saying, \u201cI think both sides can be true. I understand what you\u2019re saying, and I understand what you\u2019re saying, and both can be true at the same time. He\u2019s a great player. He played a good game. But those drops wound up costing them the game, and he knows it more than anyone else knows it. That\u2019s what I think we\u2019re trying to say here.\u201d<\/p>\n Ultimately, Greenberg hits it on the head. There can be a healthy discussion about how much blame Lamb deserves for the Cowboys\u2019 loss and whether or not he had a \u201cbad\u201d night. What made the conversation uncomfortable for many was the way Clark approached it, sending a dig (consciously or not) at Schrager, which then turned it into something personal.<\/p>\n Clark has certainly been making headlines recently for his outside-the-box commentary<\/a> and social media scraps<\/a>. The Pivot host brings a wealth of knowledge and a player\u2019s perspective to his NFL analysis. However, the conversation has often become about how some of his discussions get oddly personal<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t