Ryan Clark has become a formerly respected football player who has turned into the worst kind of talking head. He makes outrageous statements in hopes of being heard. He needs to get paid, one assumes. But his recent comments about Seattle Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold just backfired.
After news broke that Darnold had hurt his oblique in practice ahead of his team's Divisional Round game against the San Francisco 49ers, Clark said that Seattle would have a "built-in excuse" for Darnold if he played poorly and the Seahawks lost. No worries needed.
Darnold left the game in the fourth quarter, but his team was up 41-6 at the time, and the quarterback had played efficiently and didn't put the ball in harm's way.