"No Longer Needed” - Former NFL Player Sparks Caitlin Clark FIRESTORM

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This brother says what he says about Caitlin Clark, saying the WNBA has just got to get rid of Caitlin Clark. Have you guys seen this clip? This clip about Caitlin Clark. Tom, I think you commented on this. I don't know where it's at when you commented on it or not, if you can send it to the crew in the back. So he says, look, it's time.
It's time for the WNBA, this is it right there, yeah. The WNBA would be better without Caitlin Clark. Just listen to him. This is an NFL player, okay?

**Emmanuel Acho** (0:26)
The W at this junction in time would be better without Caitlin Clark because she is a bigger distraction than she is an additive. Caitlin Clark has gotten the WNBA over the necessary threshold they needed. Now people are watching. Now we realize, oh, there's talent in the W, talent that's actually even greater than Caitlin Clark. And I'm not just talking about bigs like Asia. I'm talking about the Olivia Miles. I'm talking about the Paige Becker's. Hell, I'm talking about the Kelsey Mitchell's.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:50)
Nobody's ever heard of these people homeboy.

**Emmanuel Acho** (0:51)
The necessary eyes there. But now that the eyes are there, we don't necessarily need her anymore.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:57)
Caitlin did what only Caitlin could do.

**Emmanuel Acho** (1:00)
Thank you for all your contributions, Kick Rocks. Thank you, Caitlin.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:05)
We can take it from here.

**Emmanuel Acho** (1:06)
Now you're saying that the WNBA needs to be cognizant of where they put Caitlin Clark on posters. The WNBA and the officials need to alter the rules for Caitlin Clark. The WNBA and opposing players need to treat Caitlin Clark more gently.
Caitlin Clark's coach needs to be cognizant of how she talks to her in public.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:24)
Watch this. Do you see the foul that this other girl did on Caitlin Clark? She was pushing her head down.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:30)
Knee her in the crotch too.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:31)
Yeah, and you're watching this, the Caitlin Clark foul, take the T out, yeah, foul. And you look at this, you're like, wait a minute, what the hell is this? And she's smiling at her while she's doing this. You know, with the, what do you call it? With the hand on the face. Tom, first of all, before we find that clip, what do you think about what she's saying right here, what he's saying here about Caitlin Clark, that right there, watch this, this is it, look at that. And there's even another clip of her smiling at her and smiling, and smiling. So do you agree with what he's saying? And if not, is this it? Yeah, watch that, watch that. What are you doing? What's the purpose of that? Tom, go ahead.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:09)
I don't need to go down the path of just how much envy and jealousy there is in the W toward Caitlin Clark, number one. Number two, what this guy was talking about was so selfish and wrong headed.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:23)
Who was he, by the way? By the way, he was an NFL player.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:25)
No, no, no, no, no, no. This is Emmanuel Ancho. He was drafted in the atcho. He was drafted in the sixth round by Cleveland. He barely played. He was hurt and he never was an NFL player.
Barely. He didn't play a full season. He got traded three times. So he tried to make going in on the NFL. No, he tried to make it in the NFL, and either his body or his talent didn't get him there, one or the other. But he never had an enduring position on one team for like a full season without getting hurt and anything. And he ultimately was out. He was one of many rookies that get to the NFL and don't quite are able to stay. Happens in basketball too. You could give me examples, Adam. And this guy is now a podcast and on media as a pundit. And what he was saying was that they don't need her anymore. Why? Because Caitlin Clark helped the WNBA get a huge, new digital rights and TV deal. And that's got the and she helped the salaries go up. And people hate the fact that she did it. And there's huge jealousy. Why weren't we paid? Why weren't we paid? You heard all kinds of them. And so what he's saying, Pat, he's saying, oh, we don't need her anymore. We got our TV deal. We got the salaries up. Now you can go away, because they're jealous of her. She didn't come from the zone and the area. She came from the American Midwest. The WNBA's culture and everything about its overall, you know, positioning is not Midwest.