despite some off, Co off field issues.
Bart Scott formerly of the New York Jets. The Baltimore
Ravens. He was one of the guys elbow to Elbow with Phil Simms
on cbs's NFL today. Here. He is on ESPN Radio
talking about the red flags, that Devante Wyatt brings to
the Green Bay Packers.
They need to get tough up the middle, and I know why it may
have some
Some type of y'all
off the field off the field issues, but
you have to be able to have get some tough guys and everybody
can't be choirboys, you know, you know, when I was with
the Ravens, we had to make sure that we had at least two people
on the team with a couple felonies, just make sure our
street cred was right.
When we had to go in these back alleys and pass some of these
dogfights. Sometimes you gotta have some people, there's not
no choirboys. That's why you have a strong back room to hold
them in check. I mean we had to carry this, we had this
who dated the funniest sign ever seen in my life
was
Two plus 31 equals 10 to 20. It was Ray Lewis plus Jamal Lewis
equals 10 to 20 in prison. So listen, you gotta have some
guys with you
Terrell Suggs be to do with it with it with a stop sign coming
out of Arizona. State your man. You gotta have a couple guys
like that. We can clean them up. We can get him counseling,
but you gotta have a couple goons. Are. You definitely
gotta have some goblins
and you gotta get a couple.
Hey, you know what? Somebody threw a Lifeline there
and he throw it back. What would they get here about?
Yeah, what was it here, but I don't know, but you got to be
careful there. Something along those lines. I think they were
trying desperately to get Bart. Scott to realize how quickly he
was descending
into the quicksand with that, take.
She I don't even look I don't even know where to take it from
there. It's newsworthy because it's stunning and it's
shocking.
I just I don't think they'll yes. I'll take I don't think
I don't think. I just don't think that the NFL wants its product
presented. That way. I have a feeling somebody from 345 Park
Avenue is
making a phone call today. If they didn't already yesterday
to Bristol to explain their concern about the way Bart,
Scott characterized the Years in the league. I think he's you
know again, but Bart a colorful guy, no Bart a little bit. He's
very, you know,
in touch with football and and been on some great teams and
knows the game,
you know, you'd think he was having a little fun with
the subject, trying to make a point the little here. And I'll point
that
I don't think is,
you know, again the league might not want it said,
but I don't think like
that crazy in the NFL world not. And again, here the hear
me out, not At the team's want guys that actually got
felonies. It's not that he's trying to make more of
the point of
you know, they don't want a bunch of Boy Scouts. There's
got to be a few guys in the locker room with some Edge to
them. There's gotta be there is
and I think that is standard protocol, you know, with a lot
of football teams and I've even heard stories of Belichick
talking about that. That's why, you know, again Randy Moss Aqib
Talib, love those type of guys because they brought it energy
and a street kid, too.
Locker room, they don't have felonies. I'm not trying to say
that I'm just saying there was something about them and Edge
of the you can bring to the locker room. I was on teams
with plenty of personalities like that,
you know, and and
I think that's the point. He's trying to make you know, you
got a team that's just got too many good guys. And yes, sir.
No sir and everything that way. Yeah,
at some point things get ugly in a football field
and you need one guy that's out there going.
We got to be crazy and get crazy and play better
and set the example. And show that
and usually it is that kind of guy that's you know, again not
felonies, but got a little bit of an edge about them. That
brings it to your football team and coaches in organizations do
like that. I
think that's what BART was trying to do. Maybe just went too far
in 2020 Devonte. Why who was the 28th overall pick by
the Green Bay Packers? He was charged with misdemeanor
Criminal Trespass, after having an argument with a woman, he
had lived with on and off. He allegedly kicked her door
multiple times
from the hallway, damaging the door and forcing it open.
That's According to the University of Georgia, police
charges were dismissed several months later. So that's what he
allegedly did that created the concern that
the gave Bart Scott, the starting point and I think
the more Artful way to put it and I don't know that because
Devonte, why is he? I don't know that this
take follows from why Devante why I got in trouble just
because he got mad and kicked. The door doesn't mean that he's
one of the guys that's going to set the mentality or talking
I think more like,
Brian Dawkins, sure. Like you want sure you want a guy
that is going to prepare the team
to go out and get engage
in an inherently
physical and Dever
where one guy is banging against another guy over and
over again, all game long
and Brian Dawkins, could get someone fired up without
without any off-field clouds of any kind. Brian Dawkins had
a way to pull the ripcord on the lawn, mower for the entirety.
And so if that's his point, it has nothing to do with what you
do away from work. It's what you do in the locker room to
get your team ready.
I think what he wants is even more than that. He wants that
attitude of when we get off the bus. Yeah, everything. He's
a little bit, right? Right. Everybody sees these guys and
says,
oh, yeah, weird trouble today
because they got some bad dudes literally on their team. No
doubt what we talked about this, a lot during the season,
right? In other Ravens are one of those teams ever. Year we
go. Well, if we went into
just bar, you know, Back Alley Bar, rule, barroom, brawl.
The Ravens are going to be one of those teams were going.
Every year. We're going to go to the final four here
because they believe that a little bit. They want big dudes
that are a little bit mean and nasty that way. It doesn't mean
felonies. You're right?
Dawkins is a special special
entity, that way
very rare and that he could,
you know, be one guy want all week. And then this be this
other guy that that player doesn't We Exist. Usually
the guy were talking about yes, he's emotional intense and kind
of the crazy guy on Sunday
because he's also crazy the other six days of the week
a little bit. And yes, he might have got in trouble because
somebody messed with his friend and then he beat the crap out
of the guy, right? And that he's got that
but it's like in the NFL world, people aren't going well,
he's a felon and what a bad guy. They're gone.
The guy stuck up for his friend and beat the crap out of some
Jerk.
It's kind of guy we want our locker room so I think That's
what he was trying to portray a little bit. And again, I'm not
trying to say felony or bad things that way. I'm
just trying to we're trying to paint the picture of you know,
yes, it's not choir boys in the NFL locker room all the time.
Bottom line. Yeah, no matter how much the game has changed
from a health and safety standpoint. In the last 13
years. It is still a game that is premised on physicality.
Exactly. And intimidation, right?
And that's I think, I'm not trying to help Bart Scott. Yeah.
Out of the quicksand
because I don't want to end up in it with him,
but I think he's talking about
Intimidation Factor
the guys like that.
Help you bring a level of intimidation that you otherwise
wouldn't have. And that is part of the basic human reality
of football. No matter how much it's changed or how much safer
it's gotten until they make it two hand. Touch, that's going
to be part of the Allure of building a team.
I think that's what he meant. Exactly. That's the way I said
to you. He just was trying to be one. Be the first. Yes,
exactly. Right? I'm with you there. Yeah.