Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo Apologizes to Dan Orlovsky For Calling Him a "Scrub"

Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo is joined by ESPN NFL analyst Dan Orlovsky and apologizes to the former NFL QB for calling him a "scrub."
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[@be4st856]

relative to his peers, he was a scrub. but relative to us, he's a qb god.

[@TheJDough1]

He spent 12 years in the NFL as a QB. He barely ever was touched by the defense so his body doesn’t hurt, He made millions. Has a beautiful wife and 4 kids. Sounds like a winner to me!

[@TonyTheClitSnippingTigar]

Sounds like Dan has a stalker

[@tomstorm7926]

I don’t think anyone said he was a loser in life

[@moemo284]

​@@TonyTheClitSnippingTigarbetter than a grown man being a hater LOL

[@haezeushawkins436]

@@tomstorm7926ppl use money to validate everything

[@TonyTheClitSnippingTigar]

@@moemo284 but Not quit as accomplished as a man who picks his 🥜 up. Instead you put 🥜 in your mouth. This seems too be you …👯‍♂️

[@Population11]

Ppl who compare mad dog to skip they don’t know anything about sports mad dog is a legend and class act by him to apologize as he would normally do. Classy all around.

[@mahimkhan4219]

Finally people acting like adults, things you love to see

[@icedaywalker]

If Mad Dog says that on air, imagine what he would say off air.

[@jonm7888]

He's trying to be entertaining on the show. He just went too far this time.

[@arbigharbi8613]

Dan is very cool dude I believe

[@ryanp6999]

He is and has every right to be upset about it. But, move on and just remember for the future..

[@martinsalmen6876]

They both are great! All love for them and what they do for sports commentary

[@Tyweezy84]

I’m from Ct & Played against Dan in HS, his team beat us in the playoffs. Dude was a beast in those days

[@Gamblersmusic]

Chris really has to ask why he'd get upset for calling him a scrub?

[@osheamcgee8776]

That’s how it’s done DAN AND MAD DOG FORGIVE and FORGET ITS IN THE GOOD BOOK they found a way to talk it out mad dog seem like he was shocked it bothered DAN but hey now he knows how he felt and it was Big of him to get on his show and show that type of character bravo fellas instead of bashing even In fun let’s try to build up instead of tearing down on national tv 👏

[@sread833]

Dan is a class act to go on the show.

[@rodneyporter715]

The Truth comes out

[@mz6504]

Dude made it to the nfl….obviously not a scrub…..

[@seanb2009]

lol, no, he is a scrub. But mad dog should give him more respect.

[@tomstorm7926]

He’s a scrub compared to other nfl QBs is what that means

[@AntoineJones-zt4ml]

He also was in the league 10 years

[@trevorschwartz2478]

Glad to see they cleared the air. Mad Dog is amazing and has been an incredible addition to ESPN.

[@RedKingdom28]

I like him but don’t like his yelling

[@theworkethic]

He’s an emotional child.

[@JJ_5289]

Yes he has been. I understand Orlovsky getting upset about it at first, but pretty cool of him to be able to move past it.

[@nicolasvelazquez9895]

Great guys all around!!

[@tony84.]

Great job by Mad Dog and Dan on this. And both are excellent on First Take with Stephen A.

[@leChandler24]

He was with respect to His peers! So he should Not be maf about it! Of course, reaching NFL means that he is elite , but not great and even normal!

[@sophisticated_savage]

This is how men settle scores.

[@itannoysme3348]

Guys like mad dog and Stephen A and Bayless are definitely on the narcissist spectrum. Dan handled this well, in part because he seems to understand what he's dealing with.

[@peter.parker3.0]

I always find it hilariously funny when someone with NO athletic prowess call someone who made it to the NFL a scrub. Even the worse players beat out thousands of the world's best athletes. Dan's career might not have been much, but we forget the small percentage of people who even make the team! In other words, water off a duck's back! Mad Dog is a disappointment!

[@samwallk8600]

He was 3-23 as a starting QB 😅

[@nicholas4727]

3 more wins than you'll ever have in the NFL

[@dbreiden83080]

As opposed to all the young men that played high school football and end up working blue-collar jobs

[@Chris-qh5tz]

Also Stephen A. calling Dan to make sure he's okay because he's part of the club but did Kwame 100x more dirty than Mad Dog did Dan and isn't even a little bit apologetic about it.

[@tomstorm7926]

Oh gosh get over it. That was almost 20 years ago.

[@VanillaDiceBaeBae]

​@@tomstorm7926 Doesn't matter when it was when he still hasn't apologized for going on tours to bash a high school kid who had a double digit career and was better at his job then this joke of a QB ever was.

[@tomstorm7926]

@@VanillaDiceBaeBae he doesn’t have to. I’m sure he’s done many things in his life that he didn’t apologize for. So he has to go back and apologize for everything? You’ll have to get over it sorry. A man in his 40s is still mad because someone said he suck at basketball when he was 18? Oh no!

[@timmytv7554]

From seeing his videos, I can't imagine Kwame Brown apologizing for much of anything ever.

[@JJ_5289]

Orlovsky is his co worker and their relationship is a little different. Stephen A doesnt have to be nice or apologize when criticizing players who make millions of dollars. At the end of the day Stephen A just kept going after kwame because he never really improved. And thats fair. Make that much money and you should show some noticeable improvement after a while

[@credds6572]

He wasn’t lying

[@Benjamin-fc9ww]

True or not you don’t say that about a coworker live on air. I’m sure Dan would agree that he wasn’t good.

[@nickdehart7463]

Shit I be a scrub to if it means I have a 10 yr plus career in the NFL mostly just holding a clipboard just got put work in at practice easy $$$$ lol and being a backup teach you be more QB smart cause he had scout all the other QBs so actually help him get the job he’s got now if u think about it… Tim Hasselbeck the same thing

[@user-lj1ed6nd3r]

“Hey so why did it strike a nerve?” Ummm… let’s not be disingenuous.

[@mandyoneill2706]

It’s not an apology when you say, “if you were offended by what I said…”

[@logancharles3612]

Chris Mad Dog Russo should be the last person calling someone a scrub, his take on First Take be bad!

[@johnmarston6429]

ESPN needs to upgrade from scrub out of bounds Orlovsky.

[@davidstewart799]

How many years did you play in the NFL?

[@johnmarston6429]

@@davidstewart799 -2

[@Teddy42O]

He was a scrub 😂😂

[@elevatedevaluations]

5:56 how is Joe borrow and Josh allen above Lamar? 😂 Lamar hasn't had a decent receiving core until this year, and his best WRS were a rookie and OBJ. Come on now. Get Lamar some WRS like Josh or Joe and let's see what happens.

[@mike-vc1qm]

He will choke again lol Lamar isn’t a qb he’s a running back trying to play qb

[@alexpereira6528]

Always excuses for Lamar lol. You fan boys

[@dennisthemenace855]

​@@alexpereira6528so why does Allen get excuse? Both him and lamar are in the same boat

[@kevinsamuelsghost685]

True friends don't belittle you I know some things about other people but i would never say them out loud or to other people because its not right

[@richardortiz175]

He’s a scrub tho…

[@KomodoDojo]

Dan went 2-10 in the NFL for his career. If i played my win-lose record would not be far off. SCRUB

[@z_o_i_n_k_z]

The gulf between 2-10 and 0-12 is bigger than you think

[@highrise8738]

That's the beauty of professional athletes. They make it look so easy that people legitimately think they can get off their couch and walk away with similar results without realizing they would never achieve anything close.

[@KomodoDojo]

@@highrise8738 Dan makes it look hard

[@raider1297]

@@z_o_i_n_k_z Probably 0-1 and injured on the first game for not knowing the slightest thing about protections lol. These people who think they are even remotely close to anything a pro athlete is are the definition of deluded.

[@SB-tm6cm]

Dan is a good man. He shows grace just as he has been shown grace.

[@Chris-qh5tz]

Only QB to go 0-16. Only game they were close to winning, he ran out of the back of the endzone to lose by 1.

[@clintonfreed412]

If you look at Dan as a quarterback, he was terrible. Nothing to apologize about. He spent more years as a player than number of wins.

[@readyjoe6427]

Terrible compared to the best athletes in the world yes, he would kick every average and above average athletes ass in the qb moves, like it or not he played on a professional level against the best in the world

[@blackspider1405]

but WAY better than , say, you..

[@hiteshsharma-u7l]

Hes a scrub when you compare him to brady or rodgers but hes still in the one percent of americans to make the nfl and that by definition is not a scrub so for an un athletic sports broadcaster to say is disrespectful 10 years in the nfl is hard to do.

[@philipflores2515]

Dude spent 12 years in the league. Backup or not, if he didn’t have talent or the brain to play the position he would’ve been out in three years. As a backup he watched a lot of film and helped the starter which is why he’s so good as an analysts

[@MarioMartinez-tt9ly]

The fact that he spent 12 years in the league even if it was as a backup is extremely hard considering the average nfl player that makes it to the nfl is out of the league after 3 years .

[@malcalmplanter7068]

Dan to his peers is a scrub to us he won lol

[@TheodoreRizzo]

Mad Dog and Mike Francesa’s kids have a lot influence on them a lot on what they say now on the air about athletes versus what they used to be when they were younger, as we New Yorkers know Francesa and Dog were very passionate critics never shy to criticize any athlete, coach or owners back in their local radio show in the New York clearly now Dog can’t do that cause he’s on a national media and audience. All those blk coworkers of dog are cry babies and probably their own kids won’t agree with them young generation wanna go with the flow masses as they deemed they fit in. Those comments dog made about this guy would had been validated in new York by his fans back in the day.

[@raincity3s]

Russo and all the older "hard nosed" analysts who never played professionally in any league need to be phased out of sports media. There are many analysts who didnt play who provide criticism without insulting players. The shtick is so old atp

[@GRose-v4w]

That’s like saying Joe Montana wasn’t elite lol he played differently then Steve Young but both were elite, Brock Purdy is elite period.

[@chriskay1449]

Purdy is not elite. 0 rings. You aren't elite without them.

[@GRose-v4w]

@@chriskay1449 my bad

[@beachhunting69]

@@chriskay1449 Purdy isn't elite because he has not played enough. I would think a lot of people that have watched football for a long time would say Marino was elite. He may be the exception if rings are part of the equation.

[@text97]

No apology needed. Dude is a scrub. I still don’t understand how he got a broadcasting career.

[@VvVT734]

He spent over a decade playing QB in the NFL I think he might know something about football that’s probably how he got the job

[@VanillaDiceBaeBae]

​@@VvVT734So why couldn't he apply it to his job? It's literally no different then the Monday couch QB who never was. Mark Sanchez has a more respectable career and his known for eating hotdogs in the middle of a game and ya know, the butt fumble. Mad Dog should of doubled down.

[@dorya.2189]

⁠​⁠@@VanillaDiceBaeBaeYour analysis is skewed.

[@davidstewart799]

Love how people who never played a down in the NFL called NFL players scrubs. I guess playing Madden makes you an authority on the topic

[@VanillaDiceBaeBae]

Why is this comment section caping for Dan Orlovsky? Nice guy, total bum as an NFL QB. There have been worse sure, but it is what it is.

[@a.m.phaneuf6164]

It’s all money..all money based on comments that spark controversy..getting attention, “clicks,” so that u get views so that u get people to see the commercials, i.e., the people who pay out the money to the shows, who pay the on-air people (and behind the scenes people).

[@broncosstampede494]

But Dan Was A Scrub, In Fact He Was So Bad In Detroit That They Landed Matthew Stafford In The Draft .

[@ronniesouthern7829]

If he was that good, why did the Lions go 0-16?

[@hiteshsharma-u7l]

Hes a scrub when you compare him to brady or rodgers but hes still in the one percent of americans to make the nfl and that by definition is not a scrub so for an un athletic sports broadcaster to say is disrespectful 10 years in the nfl is hard to do.

[@JustinR150]

The worst player in the NFL isn’t a scrub. The guys sitting on their couch who play catch with their son every 5 years is a scrub.

[@RedKingdom28]

@@JustinR150💀

[@stonephilips9361]

Mad Dog only wishes he played in the NFL. He said some really hurtful things about Dan.

[@jerryxiong8661]

Soft. C’mon mad dog lol.

[@HEAT4YOAZZ]

people in the media, who never played in the league, have no right to call a player who played 12 years a scrub.

[@nechadi]

Only a scrub would wear all that cheesy wrist candy

[@IrvinGarcia-im8hf]

Scrubs dont make it to the best league in the world... that's facts

[@billd3060]

Geez this dude is way too sensitive

[@Maxx_Titan7]

Big cxck Brock is not a scrub

[@easttlivinn]

🐔

[@raider1297]

That's gay

[@Oooyessbro]

Mad dog the generic Skip Bayless

[@garybeltrand5802]

Not really familiar with "Mad Dog" but he just comes off funny. Spazzy old guy talking smack for laughs, who cares. Skip's troll smacktalk thing would be more annoying cause he plays it serious. Like he's coming with intelligent professional wisdom, but it's just his usual bullshit to get attention.

[@EazyE11]

Chill Dan. It was a joke. Relative to your peers, you were a scrub. Relative to the population you were elite. This is nowhere near the disrespect Skip showed to Shannon.

[@adamcloyd8201]

Mad dog is a joke. Worst takes on ESPN