Ex-NFL star rips Ryan Clark for turning emotional ESPN exit into a grab for clicks: 'That's his thing'

Ryan Clark wants you to believe he is a victim.Clark — the former NFL safety — wants you to think ESPN executives set him up and threw him out on the street under the guise of mass layoffs. He even fired up the podcast cameras to cry on cue for the internet.But former NFL running back LeSean McCoy is calling out the waterworks for exactly what they are.SPORTS MEDIA RUSHES TO CAST RYAN CLARK AS VICTIM WHILE PORTRAYING ESPN AS THE VILLAINMcCoy took one look at Clark's emotional display and immediately dropped the hammer on his fellow broadcaster."I can't tell you how he should vent and show his emotion," McCoy said on his Speakeasy podcast."So, I mean, I probably wouldn't do this right here, but I mean, this is part of his lane.
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Ryan Clark wants you to believe he is a victim.Clark — the former NFL safety — wants you to think ESPN executives set him up and threw him out on the street under the guise of mass layoffs. He even fired up the podcast cameras to cry on cue for the internet.But former NFL running back LeSean McCoy is calling out the waterworks for exactly what they are.SPORTS MEDIA RUSHES TO CAST RYAN CLARK AS VICTIM WHILE PORTRAYING ESPN AS THE VILLAINMcCoy took one look at Clark's emotional display and immediately dropped the hammer on his fellow broadcaster."I can't tell you how he should vent and show his emotion," McCoy said on his Speakeasy podcast."So, I mean, I probably wouldn't do this right here, but I mean, this is part of his lane. He's into, what's the word, clicks, likes, you know, that's his thing."McCoy wasn't buying it."I knew it was going to be something. I knew he was going to monetize this whole thing," McCoy added."That's what he did.
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- Ryan Clark wants you to believe he is a victim.Clark — the former NFL safety — wants you to think ESPN executives set him up and threw him out on the street under the guise of mass layoffs. He even fired up the podcast cameras to cry on cue for the internet.But former NFL running back LeSean McCoy is calling out the waterworks for exactly what they are.SPORTS MEDIA RUSHES TO CAST RYAN CLARK AS VICTIM WHILE PORTRAYING ESPN AS THE VILLAINMcCoy took one look at Clark's emotional display and immediately dropped the hammer on his fellow broadcaster."I can't tell you how he should vent and show his emotion," McCoy said on his Speakeasy podcast."So, I mean, I probably wouldn't do this right here, but I mean, this is part of his lane.
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Ex-NFL star rips Ryan Clark for turning emotional ESPN exit into a grab for clicks: 'That's his thing'
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