The Monday Morning Quarterback’s Robert Klemko attended the NFL rookie symposium in 2014 where Cris Carter made his now infamous “fall guy” speech, but he never reported the remark. Instead, Carter’s advice to rookies that they obstruct justice and skirt the law when doing something wrong only became publicized by an ESPN feature about Chris Borland.
Carter has since apologized for the advice, while the NFL issued a statement about it and deleted the video from their website. Now Klemko is explaining why he never reported what he heard.
Here is what Klemko wrote in a statement on the matter:
Two years ago I attended the NFL symposium as the first writer to gain near-unfettered access to the rookie orientation event.