Appearing on 'The Pivot,' Sauce Gardner called out Mecole Hardman, saying the wide receiver 'never earned his stripes' with the Jets.
Stephen A. Smith says Mecole Hardman should address the rumor he leaked Jets' game plans after being traded to the Chiefs. Rich Cimini is a staff writer who covers the New York Jets and the NFL at ESPN. Rich has covered the Jets for over 30 years, joining ESPN in 2010. Rich also hosts the Flight Deck podcast. He previously was a beat writer for the New York Daily News and is a graduate of Syracuse University. You can follow him via Twitter @RichCimini.
"If you really know what it takes to win," Gardner said,"you're going make sure you let the team know. ... The reason he couldn't do that is because he never earned his stripes. He came to the facility and thought he had it made for him. "If you know what it takes to win, you're not going to go to practice and drop hella punts and then have excuses as to why you're dropping them. You're not going to go into a special teams meeting and get cussed out by the special teams coordinator. There's just certain things that are not going to happen if you truly know what it takes to win.
Hardman said he was so disgruntled that he asked the Chiefs, his team from 2019 to 2022, to"come get me" during the season. They did, acquiring the wide receiver in an Oct. 19 trade that ended his brief and disappointing time in New York. After Hardman's podcast appearance, Gardner was one of a few players on the Jets who fired back on social media. In a since-deleted post, Gardner implied that Hardman had leaked a game plan to the"If you really know what it takes to win, you're going make sure you let the team know. ... The reason he couldn't do that is because he never earned his stripes. He came to the facility and thought he had it made for him."Gardner wasn't asked about that during the podcast.
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