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Cris Carter urges rookies to have a fall guy for crimes

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A recent ESPN feature on former 49ers linebacker Chris Borland described Borland as “appalled” by what he heard at the 2014 Rookie Symposium, when a former NFL player told the rookies that they should have a “fall guy” in their crew who would take the blame if they faced legal trouble. What ESPN failed to mention is that the former player who gave that advice was an ESPN employee, Cris Carter.

Although the ESPN feature says that Borland “declined to name” the player, the writers easily could have identified Carter as the source of the comments, because the video of Carter’s presentation at the Rookie Symposium is available at NFL.com.

The presentation went basically how Borland described it in the ESPN feature: Carter told rookies that they should have one friend who will be willing to take the blame if they ever get into trouble. Warren Sapp, onstage along with Carter, agreed.

“If you all got a crew, you got to have a fall guy in the crew,” Carter said. “If you all have a crew, one of those fools got to know, he’s the one going to jail. We’ll get him out.”

Sapp then repeated, “We’ll get him out.”
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“Just in case you all are not going to decide do the right thing, if you all got a crew, you’ve got to have a fall guy in the crew,” Carter says in the video.

You can watch his comments here:
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How Carter still has a network job is beyond me. At least Sapp was funny sometimes ... when he wasn't busy clapping hoes around :idk:
 
Carter has a point... If only Sapp had a "fall guy" with him in his hotel room he might still have a job!
 
Carter...what a tool. Dropping that easy TD pass against the Vikings when he "played" for us. What a POS
 
Hated that loser ever since.

Probably partied with his Viking F buddies afterwards.

I really liked Warren when he played for the Canes. I watch him almost single handedly destroy the #1 ranked Oklahoma offense. Great at Tampa and Oak but the last few years he's been a train wreck.
 
Sounds like a good idea and good advice

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So the league requested that the only reporter present keep Carter’s comments out of his story.

That reporter, Robert Klemko of TheMMQB.com, got what he describes as “near-unfettered access to the rookie orientation event.” But in return for that access, he agreed to allow the league to make some elements of the symposium off the record, retroactively.

That’s rare in journalism. Usually, when a source and a reporter agree to go off the record, they make that agreement in advance, and a source can’t make a statement off the record after the fact. But Klemko explained today that he felt it was a concession worth making.

“I only agree to these omissions when the subject matter is immaterial to what I gather is the larger point of the story, which, in the case of the symposium, I believed Carter’s comment was,” Klemko wrote today.

Klemko says Kim Fields, who serves in player engagement as the league’s vice president of strategic development and operations, immediately bristled at the Carter “fall guy” comments.

“Fields looked my way and said, ‘that can’t go in the story,'” Klemko wrote. “I was torn. I take pride in reporting every detail, even at the risk of damaging relationships.”

But ultimately, Klemko agreed to the NFL’s request.

“I loved the Carter quote for how outlandish and idiotic it was, but I didn’t see it as emblematic of the symposium,” Klemko wrote. “Maybe it was a mistake not to run it, but I had made an agreement which boiled down to this: Tell 95% of an untold story, or none of it. I chose 95% because I wanted to take readers someplace they’d never been, and I wanted to continue getting access to these sorts of events.”

Today, Klemko decided to tell the rest of the story, whether the NFL likes it or not.

It’s bizarre that the NFL was so adamant that Klemko couldn’t include Carter’s comments in his story, and then NFL.com ended up publishing the video of Carter’s presentation. But it shows that sometimes in the NFL, the right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing. As one league employee was trying to keep Carter’s comments from becoming public, another league employee was putting Carter’s comments on NFL.com.
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What this is basically saying is go ahead and break the law, and find some sucker to take the blame because NFL athletes are above the law. If I was ESPN, or whatever network he works for, I would come out strongly and say, "Cris Carter is no longer employed here as we have different values." You have to wonder what the rookies Carter was speaking to were thinking when this crap came out of his mouth. Seems like a lot of thugs with bad advice are employed by these networks.
 
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