Cris Carter apologizes after ‘fall guy’ video surfaces
Cris Carter apologized on Sunday for some controversial advice he gave to incoming NFL rookies over a year ago.
Last week, a feature story on former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland revealed that a prominent former player advised players at the 2014 Rookie Symposium to have a “fall guy” in their crew who is willing to go to jail if something goes wrong. It was quickly determined that the player was Carter, as you can see from the video above.
“In case ya’ll are not going to decide to do the right thing, if ya’ll got a crew, you’ve got to have a fall guy in the crew,” Carter said. “I let my homeboys know, ‘If ya’ll want to keep rolling like this, then I need to know who’s going to be the fall guy, who’s going to be driving.’ Because you guys aren’t all going to do the right stuff, so I’ve got to teach ya’ll how to get around all this stuff too. If you’re going to have a crew, one of them fools gotta know that he’s going to jail. We’ll get him out.”
The video still existed on NFL.com as of Sunday afternoon but has since been removed. Carter finally apologized on Twitter after it surfaced.
Seeing that video has made me realize how wrong I was. I was brought there to educate young people and instead I gave them very…
— Cris Carter (@criscarter80) August 24, 2015
bad advice. Every person should take responsibility for his own actions. I’m sorry and I truly regret what I said that day.”
— Cris Carter (@criscarter80) August 24, 2015
To make matters worse, Warren Sapp — who has been accused of some disturbing stuff in recent months — was the other player giving advice to the incoming rookie class.
Between the “fall guy” advice and his thoughts on Geno Smith, Carter has proven he probably isn’t the best person to be welcoming college football players into the next chapter of their lives.
Video via New York Daily News
