ESPN and the NFL both condemned comments made by ESPN NFL analyst Cris Carter at the 2014 NFL Rookie Symposium. Carter, 49, talked to players during the a session in which he and Warren Sapp discussed having a "fall guy" in your crew in case a player got into trouble, according to ESPN. Sapp repeated Carter's statement that "we'll get him out" if the person goes to jail.
ESPN issued a statement: "We completely disagree with Cris's remarks and we have made that extremely clear to him. Those views were entirely his own and do not reflect our company's point of view in any way."
ESPN viewed the archived video of the symposium talk, and transcribed the conversation in which NFL Hall of Famer Carter offered this tip: "I let my homeboys know, y'all want to keep rolling like this, then I need to know who gonna be the fall guy, who's going to be driving. Y'all not going to all do the right stuff now. So I've got to teach you how to get around all this stuff, too. If you're going to have a crew, one of them fools got to know he going to jail. We'll get him out." Carter said during the session. "...If you're going to have a crew, make sure they understand, can't nothing happen to you. Your name can't be in lights, under no circumstances. You all understand that?" continued Carter, according to The Bleacher Report.
The NFL issued a statement, saying: "The comment was not representative of the message of the symposium or any other league program. The league's player engagement staff immediately expressed concern about the comment to Cris. The comment was not repeated in the 2014 AFC session or this year's symposium."
Carter took to Twitter to apologize after the story caught fire, according to Yahoo! Sports.
bad advice. Every person should take responsibility for his own actions. I’m sorry and I truly regret what I said that day.”
— Cris Carter (@criscarter80) August 24, 2015
