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O.T. -- Cris Carter advised NFL rookies to find a 'fall guy' if they got into trouble (link)

Cute how the NFL pretends to care about this sort of nonsense but Carter is right. I remember Matt Spaeth taking the fall for Jeff Reed during one of his many incidents. How many cops fell on the sword for Big Ben during his whole debacle? That's just recent history in Pittsburgh. Patriots are still trying to hang everything on lesser employees for the football deflating.

Fall guys...very important in the NFL.
 
How about "hey, don't get in trouble and stay away from the people who will get you in trouble"? Nah.......footballing is too important for that kind of stuff
 
Love the fact that someone like Cris Carter actually is considered a voice of reason.. That says all there is about the NFL.. How many drug tests has Cris Carter failed?? Dude sniffed more powder than Tony Montana and he is the guy giving advise.. Hilarious.
 
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Carter was thrown out of OSU, is a addict in Philly and bottoms out until Minny. He was a possession receiver and that's OK, but he was never the game breaker the HOF type player should be voted in. I never want to hear from those who failed and are spinning crap to give themselves a false narrative.
 
chethejet said:
Carter was thrown out of OSU, is a addict in Philly and bottoms out until Minny. He was a possession receiver and that's OK, but he was never the game breaker the HOF type player should be voted in. I never want to hear from those who failed and are spinning crap to give themselves a false narrative.
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Guys like him, profiting off past transgressions, are not what it's about. It's not about "look at me, I ****ed up and now I'm good." Sad. Very sad. Humility is the answer.
 
chethejet said:
Carter was thrown out of OSU, is a addict in Philly and bottoms out until Minny. He was a possession receiver and that's OK, but he was never the game breaker the HOF type player should be voted in. I never want to hear from those who failed and are spinning crap to give themselves a false narrative.
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Failed??? Hardly. He played the system as it was set up. You don't have to go too far to find a dirtball in an NFL locker room. There are more lowlifes than good people.
 
vinniep33 said:
Guys like him, profiting off past transgressions, are not what it's about. It's not about "look at me, I ****ed up and now I'm good." Sad. Very sad. Humility is the answer.
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Let's assume...as adult men.....that "do the right thing" isn't going be applicable..because they are willingly acting inappropriately because they want to.

Frankly, find a fall guy...is sound advice.
Consider the mentality of the average NFL player....they aren't pro players because they are rational thinking people.
 
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vinniep33 said:
Guys like him, profiting off past transgressions, are not what it's about. It's not about "look at me, I ****ed up and now I'm good." Sad. Very sad. Humility is the answer.
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What I find so ridiculous is that if they'd look hard enough, they'd find some decent guys who played in the NFL. One would think that they'd give these guys the job of speaking to the rookies - let 'em hear some advice from a positive role model. Instead, some "genius" came-up with the brilliant idea of letting a scumbag represent the league in their rookie orientation.

I guess that they couldn't spring Lawrence Phillips from the Big House to get him to speak to the rookies, but Cris Carter was available? :rolleyes:
 
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What I find so ridiculous is that if they'd look hard enough, they'd find some decent guys who played in the NFL. One would think that they'd give these guys the job of speaking to the rookies - let 'em hear some advice from a positive role model. Instead, some "genius" came-up with the brilliant idea of letting a scumbag represent the league in their rookie orientation.

I guess that they couldn't spring Lawrence Phillips from the Big House to get him to speak to the rookies, but Cris Carter was available? :rolleyes:
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Well, it seems that Cris Carter isn't following his own advice. He has no fall guy for his controversial comments, and it may cost him his job.
 
raleighpanther said:
Well, it seems that Cris Carter isn't following his own advice. He has no fall guy for his controversial comments, and it may cost him his job.
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Carter learned what we all know: that cameras are everywhere. Once they made cellphones small enough to fit into a pocket, and once cellphones evolved into mini-movie cameras, there's not a whole lot that doesn't get recorded anymore.....
 
Panther Parrothead said:
In 2014, when speaking at the NFL Rookie Symposium, former NFL great Cris Carter advised a room full of rookies to find a 'fall guy" to take the rap for them to avoid trouble. And yes, it's caught on film.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/story/2015-08-23/cris-carter-espn-fall-guy-video-rookie-symposium

Now the public should wonder how many 'fall guys' took a rap for him during his career?
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I believe The Ohio State University offers a 3 credit course in this. Happy to hear that he retained so much from his rugged academic pursuits in Columbus.
 
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