Ryan Clark's Firing Just Exposed Stephen A. Smith's Biggest Lie | Ep 1201 

**Jason Whitlock** (0:00)
Picture it. Ryan Clark is sitting on the set of NFL Live. Lights on, cameras rolling, doing his little analyst thing, probably dropping a race card or two, and somewhere in the middle of that broadcast, somebody lets him know, Ryan, bring your playbook, coach wants to see you, you're done. Laid off, and Ryan Clark gets up and leaves. Didn't finish the show, just gone. Gone, boy, walked off his own program. Now, a bigger man, a more dignified man, would feel sorry for Ryan Clark.
I'm not that man.
I'm a man that sees the humor, the irony, the righteousness of this act. Yes, this is quite the pivot for Ryan Clark and ESPN.
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**SPEAKER_2** (3:05)
Look, you said you go keep it in the butt.

**Steve Kim** (3:08)
A thousand, a thousand thousand.

**Jason Whitlock** (3:10)
Keep it a thousand now. I've done the homework on Stephen A. He's fraudulent. He's lying about his college basketball career. He's admitted he's lying about his college basketball career. If I sat in the media space for 20 years telling everybody, I played for Big House Games and I got a full ride scholarship after knocking down 17 straight three-pointers in a scrimmage on a Sunday, when they played a game on Saturday and they hosted a scrimmage on Sunday, and I knocked down 17 straight three-pointers, and they gave me a scholarship on the spot.
Ryan Clark, he didn't care for my comments on Cam's show, neither did Stephen A.
So the two of them got on their platforms and started scolding Cam Newton. The gist, Cam.
If a man shows you love, has you around, you don't platform his enemies. Loyalty is at a minimum these days.
Loyalty? Two grown men running the loyalty police on Cam Newton's own show over who Cam Newton is allowed to have a conversation with? Now, here's why the timing is absolutely perfect. For two whole months, Ryan Clark walked around believing his loyalty sermon aids like fine wine. The whole time, the network he was demanding everyone be loyal to, was quietly sharpening the ax with his name on it. And here's the kicker. The man Ryan was scolding, Cam over, Stephen A. Smith, he couldn't spell the word if Kendrick Lamar helped him. Do it. Let me make sure I've got the loyalty math right. Clark and Stephen A lectured Cam for being disloyal, and ESPN may be about to lay off all three of them.
Yes, I said all three. I don't think Stephen A is going to see all five years on his latest contract. That's my prediction.
Cam Newton could very well be the next ESPN casualty.
The universe didn't rush this punchline, Fearless family, it's serving the whole table. Let's talk about the man Ryan Clark was defending, because this is where it gets very educational. Stephen A. Smith preaches loyalty the way a fox preaches in-house security. Ask Molly Caron. Sat next to Stephen A for years, held the first take desk down, looked good doing it. But when the wind shifted, was she protected? When she wanted a little pay bump from 500,000, did Stephen A make it happen? Was she saved? Could she get paid? Let's ask Shannon Sharpe. Stephen A was right there. Did that famous leverage do anything for Shannon when Shannon needed cover?