Cris Carter blames Geno Smith for getting sucker punched (Video)

Geno Smith broke his jaw in a locker room altercation on Tuesday afternoon and Cris Carter had a molten hot take for ESPN.

When bad things happen in the NFL, you typically lean on former NFL players to give you perspective since they lived and breathed the profession. But not every hot take you request was exactly what you thought it would be — and that’s the situation that ESPN was in when they asked Cris Carter to comment on the Geno Smith locker room incident.

Smith broke his jaw in a fight with a teammate that sounds less like an altercation and more like a sucker punch assault. The broken jaw will keep Smith out for 6-10 weeks, and has people actually sympathizing with him for once.

Well, everyone except for Cris Carter.

Carter was enlisted by ESPN to give them a hot take on the Geno Smith incident, and boy was it ever exactly that.

There are varying accounts of just exactly what happened inside the Jets locker room that led to Smith getting punched so hard his jaw broke. But at the time of this taping it sounded like Smith was sucker punched, even if he instigated the whole incident in some way.

Carter blaming Geno for getting sucker punched is like blaming someone for a bird pooping on them. You had nothing to do with it, but somehow it was your lack of leadership that led to a bird randomly pooping on another person’s shoulder.

What Carter is probably trying to say here is that there was alack of respect for Smith, as quarterbacks who are respected by their teammates don’t often times get sucker punched and end up with broken jaws. That being said, this wasn’t Brandon Marshall or Darrelle Revis sucker punching Geno, it was a sixth-round draft pick with three career tackles to his credit.

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