ESPN layoffs: Ryan Clark gone and more to come | (Updated: ) Tom Pelissero expected to be out at NFL Network

[sb1]

Telling him the news while he was doing NFL Live

 

[sb1]

Clark is not a generational analyst and ESPN apparently agreed.

 

[1960Pats]

ESPN is on my do not watch list. I don't think I'm missing anything

 

[TheRainMaker]

I haven't watched any of their shows going on 8 years now. I only watch MNF. The golden years were the 90's into the 2000's.

There is so much competition to be relevant it has resorted to rage baiting.

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

I hate playing the race card here, but Clark was definitely anti-white in many, many segments I watched of his over the years.
The Brady/Manning/Brees take is case in point.
He was subtle about it, but it was there, far too frequently to be a coincidence.

 

[Guts]

I hate playing the race card here, but Clark was definitely anti-white in many, many segments I watched of his over the years.
The Brady/Manning/Brees take is case in point.
He was subtle about it, but it was there, far too frequently to be a coincidence.

you racist ****

 

[Sect140]

I figured he would be in the next round of cuts, his mouth has gotten him into trouble a couple times in the last year. Was he the won that ran his mouth before the Pats and Steelers play-off game?

 

[DoubleDeluxe]

I figured he would be in the next round of cuts, his mouth has gotten him into trouble a couple times in the last year. Was he the won that ran his mouth before the Pats and Steelers play-off game?

No sure about that one, but he ran his mouth a lot.
Too many analysts today have their own agendas and extreme bias that clouds what they are paid to do, provide in-depth analysis.
If I wanted to hear subjective blind opinions, I can get that at the water cooler at work.
Much like Marshall Faulk back in the day.
When the Pats had their historic offense in 2007, Faulk was doing a bit on NFLN an d was rating the Colts/Pats O units.
He said the Colts had the better:
QB
Oline
RBs
WRs
TEs
Pats had the best offense of all time and this terds hate for the Pats was so blatant he ranks every unit of that years Colts above the Pats.
Again, I can get these ridiculously subjective opinions from the general public, I expect a little more from guys getting paid to "analyze" the game on TV.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

who is generational to clark.....roethlisberger ? generational creep maybe.

 

[BobDigital]

We need less color commentators or 'analyst' giving 'hot takes'. Which are really just stupid shock value takes. I want more people who know the sports. Deep stats, and give something of note.

 

[AQPE]

Somewhere in Pittsburgh there’s a river waiting for this no-talent assclown’s van to arrive.

 

[captain stone]

I haven't watched any of their shows going on 8 years now. I only watch MNF. The golden years were the 90's into the 2000's.

There is so much competition to be relevant it has resorted to rage baiting.

And to agenda-promulgating.

 

[Bill Lee]

Telling him the news while he was doing NFL Live

I heard ESPN was a pretty cut-throat place, but this goes beyond the pale!

I think tomorrow could be ugly for a lot of other "talent".

This is the first big layoff after ESPN has gained control of NFL Network.

There's a lot of people who are probably surplus to requirements now.

"Talent" contracts tend to be timed to the beginning of the NFL season.

I bet a lot of such contracts won't be getting renewed.

 

[Thunderhead]

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

Overrated player, crap analyst.

Eat **** dude

 

[patfanken]

I hated the early Ryan Clark when his Pat's hate was clear and obvious. However, in recent years I found him to be more unbiased and one of the more astute NFL voices at ESPN. Maybe he got far enough from that great rivalry that the Pats dominated, but remained one of the better rivalries of the 2000's and 2010's. So, I hate to say it but in recent years I found Ryan one of the more insightful analysts on the network.

BUT it is nature of TV to want to keep going younger to get the proper advertising demographic. I am a lot more selective on what I watch on ESPN. How can you trust a network that wants you to believe that the WWE is real.

 

[Bill Lee]

From The Athletic:

Clark was making more than $2 million per year, the sources said. He had been with ESPN for more than a decade and, while he was slated to be a large part of its Super Bowl LXI coverage next year, when the network is set to broadcast the event for the first time, the sources said there had also been talk internally since February that he might not return.​

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ESPN executives soured on Clark because of issues with some of his choices, a dynamic that peaked with an on- and off-air incident this past season involving colleague Peter Schrager.​

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On “Get Up” last September, after Schrager defended Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb’s performance in an opening-night loss, Clark said, “That’s the non-player in you.”​

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Schrager asked Clark not to belittle him and mentioned there are other perspectives, to which Clark responded, “Peter, what I need for you to do is not get mad and let me finish.”​

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Much later that day, Clark tweeted out an apology, saying, “Today, I had an interaction with my colleague (Schrager) both on and off the air that I regret.”​

Hmm, maybe he shouldn't have tangled with the golden haired boy....

A $2M mistake, perhaps?

I agree with Ken in that he is aging out of the talking head gig.

Add to that causing tension on and off the air, and taking $2M off the company after what the article says was a contentious contract negotiation, and you are setting yourself to get axed at the next major layoff.

If he's smart, he's been banking some of those pay checks. The NFL media world is consolidating. The big money being splashed around in the podcast space has come and gone. ESPN is now running NFLN. There aren't a lot of jobs out there.

PS: One thing released: Rich Eisen isn't going to be doing play-by-play any more. It kind of suggests his contract had a per-game payout in it, and ESPN decided they could get someone cheaper to do the games.

ESPN cuts ties with NFL analyst Ryan Clark, wider layoffs expected Tuesday: Sources

ESPN has cut ties with one of its most prominent NFL analysts, sources briefed on the move told The Athletic.

www.nytimes.com

 

[rkarp1]

From The Athletic:

Clark was making more than $2 million per year, the sources said. He had been with ESPN for more than a decade and, while he was slated to be a large part of its Super Bowl LXI coverage next year, when the network is set to broadcast the event for the first time, the sources said there had also been talk internally since February that he might not return.​

​

ESPN executives soured on Clark because of issues with some of his choices, a dynamic that peaked with an on- and off-air incident this past season involving colleague Peter Schrager.​

​

On “Get Up” last September, after Schrager defended Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb’s performance in an opening-night loss, Clark said, “That’s the non-player in you.”​

​

Schrager asked Clark not to belittle him and mentioned there are other perspectives, to which Clark responded, “Peter, what I need for you to do is not get mad and let me finish.”​

​

Much later that day, Clark tweeted out an apology, saying, “Today, I had an interaction with my colleague (Schrager) both on and off the air that I regret.”​

Hmm, maybe he shouldn't have tangled with the golden haired boy....

A $2M mistake, perhaps?

I agree with Ken in that he is aging out of the talking head gig.

Add to that causing tension on and off the air, and taking $2M off the company after what the article says was a contentious contract negotiation, and you are setting yourself to get axed at the next major layoff.

If he's smart, he's been banking some of those pay checks. The NFL media world is consolidating. The big money being splashed around in the podcast space has come and gone. ESPN is now running NFLN. There aren't a lot of jobs out there.

PS: One thing released: Rich Eisen isn't going to be doing play-by-play any more. It kind of suggests his contract had a per-game payout in it, and ESPN decided they could get someone cheaper to do the games.

ESPN cuts ties with NFL analyst Ryan Clark, wider layoffs expected Tuesday: Sources

ESPN has cut ties with one of its most prominent NFL analysts, sources briefed on the move told The Athletic.

www.nytimes.com

legacy media is consolidating.
there are infinite opportunities in todays
someone like Clark, while he is not everyone's fave flavor, does have a legit group of followers, that would more than likely follow him onto pod's and you tube channels.
would prob be more lucrative for him as well

 

[borg]

“I don't think Tom Brady, I don't think Drew Brees, I don't think Peyton Manning are generational talents.”

Has Jamele Hill been whispering in his ear?

 

[BennyBledsoe]

I still say the smart play is to permanently simulcast MNF on ABC and ESPN. Live sports is about all the old networks have going for them.