Canes on Canes Fire: Harsh criticism for Cam Ward

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We get some Canes on Canes fire as former Miami Offensive Lineman has harsh criticism for Cam Ward. Tobin and Leroy give their take defending Cam Ward.

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00:00We got a little cane on cane crime, I guess what what happened who talking about who so former

00:08canes tackle

00:11Orlando Franklin play with the king. Oh seven to eleven played about six seven years in the league

00:17broadcaster

00:19One of those offensive linemen lost a ton of weight that big Sedano's broadcast partner now

00:24So he called out I can't believe he did this

00:28Big mistake

00:30He called out cam Ward after the victory

00:36Because cam Ward was

00:40Going cam Ward was on was on SportsCenter right after the win now. It's 2 30 in the morning

00:49Up a storm a little bit like right as they got on Mike his guys were jumping around him

00:53Like it's not like he went up there answered the question and was like dropping

00:57You know the n-word and they were like

01:00Celebrating they jumped like give him the headset. Somebody went crazy and he's like, you know, you don't know he's live yet

01:07He was talking to his teammates. I don't know if he knew he was live

01:10I don't know if he knew he was live or recording whatever, but this was what Orlando Franklin said now broadcasting

01:16He's very strong

01:17They should never allow cam Ward to speak publicly for the rest of the season the s-word and the n-word being dropped on

01:24SportsCenter question mark

01:27WTF young man, you're trying to get drafted and you're a role model

01:31You have to be better than this a bad look for my alma mater and he tags Keane's football. Okay. No, first of all, I

01:40Will fight every person

01:44Who thinks this?

01:46Cam Ward is 21

01:4921 22 22 I think 22

01:52He ain't nobody's role model

01:54If you want to play football like Cam Ward fine, but it ain't his job

02:01to make sure every kid in the world is

02:05You know

02:07The way they are so stop that with that stop with that. The other thing is this

02:13It's more ESPN's fault than his

02:16Of course if you stick a mic in somebody's hand after that win

02:22Then there's gonna be

02:24Conversations that were not meant for TV. Nobody told him he was live

02:28Usually they say we're live or we're this they usually but when they don't they'll give you the headset and then

02:36You go

02:40So the fact that

02:43Another player

02:45Will call the player out and

02:48Not the organization that threw the mic on him right after the game

02:52after that thrill, you know that game and

02:57And and think that you might hear something you shouldn't be hearing

03:01Like come on man, like that's crazy now

03:06Look, I'm gonna tell you like this. I have a rule I

03:10Have a rule and I grew up in the real South not this BS South down here. I

03:17Grew up in Louisiana

03:19Well, the n-word was nothing nice

03:21Okay, it was demeaning and demoralized. It was meant that way and so that's the way it took I

03:30Don't use it and nobody's ever heard me use it. You know, why because I don't want nobody around me feeling comfortable using it

03:38So I

03:41Tell other

03:43Black men and women

03:47Don't be offended if

03:50People out there here you using the word if you don't want people to use it and you find it offensive you don't use it

03:57It's just a very strong call-out to never allow you to speak publicly for the rest of the season

04:03Okay, okay

04:05Here's the thing. The only difference between when he played and we can play right now is

04:09Nobody gave a damn what he had to say after a game. I haven't seen so but I'm just saying

04:16So now all of a sudden you're gonna act like oh I did it all the time

04:20there's a lot of situations where you haven't been in and

04:24you've been in those moments where you're celebrating a victory or something like that and

04:31If

04:32Somebody had a boom mic. They might hear something. They don't want to hear

04:37They might hear you talking trash about another player

04:41Right. Yeah, it's again like this goes to all right

04:45Fine, I can maybe

04:47Get this if he was answering the question, right? He wasn't even though they were just getting the headset on he was emotional

04:55They just had this crazy ass comeback and it's 2 in the morning, dude

05:00On a station that employs Pat McAfee. I think heavens to Betsy. They'll be all right

05:06Right, but but I just think listen

05:10if

05:12If you have a problem with it

05:15right

05:17You're very easily

05:18Get a contact with Cam Ward. This is what Duke Johnson said to him

05:23You can get all the game war and say listen brother you you you got everything going on for you, right?

05:28Don't have them catch you in in bad spots

05:31Don't have them catch you on the mic saying things that you you might have to deal with at a future date

05:37Just be careful. That's it

05:39That's what Duke Johnson said Duke Johnson replied to this on Twitter because a lot of Cain's are hosing them on Twitter

05:44With love bro. This isn't it?

05:46We as former Cain's need to just go down and talk to these kids or call them if we feel like we can help them

05:51right

05:53Don't see because here's the thing when a person does that

05:58He's standing on his podium like he's always been

06:05You know

06:07That way see one of the things that people don't really like take for example

06:12Deon Sanders

06:14Never curses. He does not you don't have to worry about he never did even when he played been in fistfights never curse

06:22You see what I'm saying? I have friends that way Keith Byers doesn't swear

06:28For whatever reason that's cool

06:32But he ain't out there calling everybody out

06:35Now, I don't know enough about

06:38What's his name?

06:39Orlando Franklin Orlando Franklin to know what he was doing when he was in Miami

06:45To know how he was you see what I'm saying?

06:48Yeah, and also like all of a sudden act like because you have a job that

06:54All the things that you did when you were a kid

06:58You should be more

06:59Understanding about playing at the U and going through them playing in big games and stuff like this

07:04Especially if you're a broadcaster now, right, you know, like it's you

07:08You know the broadcaster, you know, you know for a fact

07:12That's one of my biggest pet peeves is when athletes act like they never played

07:17Like they ain't never been in that situation

07:20Like they don't you know, I mean he could have said I appreciate the excitement

07:25I would tone it down on the language a little bit or I would give him time before we put him on mic

07:30He could have said that that definitely is. Well, that's definitely what it should have been like, right?

07:34They make they rolled credits went to SportsCenter here. They literally handed him the headset, right?

07:40You know, oh then then

07:43If if cam work was aware of the situation and he would have said no, I'm not going on camera

07:50Then what then we would have blasted him for that. Yeah

07:55of course how

07:57don't put people in situations where they can't win and they didn't do anything and

08:03that's the way like based on what was just said about him and

08:09based on the

08:10Alternatives that man just played a hell of a football game and he in the no-win situation

08:15He can't celebrate cuz no god forbid you celebrate too much

08:20So, yeah, I don't know man, I just think I just think you can do certain things

08:27To to show you're truly concerned about the situation and trying to help somebody out

08:32Or you could do things to step on your stand on your soapbox and make it sound like I would have never

08:39Yeah, I mean and definitely ways that you could say

08:43Sure, never talk to the media. He shouldn't be allowed to talk to the media and bad look for my alma mater

08:49Let me just say no it wasn't

08:53What a bad look for your alma mater would have been was would have been to lose to Cal

08:56Right, that would have been a bad look for your alma mater, right?

08:59Instead he has one of the best comebacks in school history. Not a great that that that's a good

09:04That's a great look for your alma mater. I think we get so caught up

09:08And

09:09having hot takes and

09:12It's not necessary. Yeah, it's not necessary every time you don't have to be the guy with the the

09:18Sly remark in the hot take you were there to try to help people understand football

09:24Yeah, I expect that from like Danny Cannell. No offense Danny. I don't think Danny would have did that

09:29I'm like I expect a

09:31Seminole or like Tim Tebow to come out and say that I don't expect a cane

09:34I don't expect a cane to say I expect somebody like Stephen a or

09:38somebody like skip Bayless or

09:41somebody like

09:43What's-his-name on Fox like those guys?

09:47But another player I think even if they had a problem with it the way they would have handled it

09:54Would have been far different

09:56Than the way Orlando handled

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