Bart Scott pays the price for spreading lies about the Patriots

Former NFL player and current TV analyst Bart Scott was roasted online and on social media for his misinformed take on the New England Patriots.

Leave it to a former New York Jet and Baltimore Raven to say something embarrassingly stupid about the New England Patriots on national television.

Bart Scott, an ex-NFL linebacker, joined a speaking panel on FS1’s “First Things First” morning sports talk show on Monday and proceeded to deliver one of the most blatant examples of fake news and misinformation imaginable, per USA Today’s Andy Nesbitt.

Apparently these distinguished members of the media were discussing the importance of the Patriots securing home-field advantage in the playoffs – something that may have slipped out of their grasp this past weekend when they lost to Houston and Baltimore beat San Francisco.

Speaking like a seasoned expert on the Patriots and their long and impressive postseason history, Scott opined that New England desperately needs to find a way to get back into the No. 1 seed in the AFC. His reasoning? Because, as we all know, “they’ve never made a Super Bowl when they had to go on the road at any point.”

The only problem with Scott’s insightful analysis is that it’s completely fabricated and untrue.

Just last year the Patriots went on the road en route to making and then winning the Super Bowl. They beat the Kansas City Chiefs (coincidentally the team they face this week) on the road at Arrowhead Stadium in the AFC Championship Game.

Maybe Scott doesn’t watch football now that he’s getting paid to analyze it from a studio instead of playing it on the field?

Of course, last postseason wasn’t the only year that New England went on the road and won, either. The Patriots twice beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game on the road, once in 2001 and once in 2004, before advancing to the Super Bowl and winning the Lombardi Trophy.

All of this makes a lot more sense when you do a quick search on Scott’s NFL career history. He spent seven years with the Ravens and four years with the Jets, neither one of which is considered exactly friendly with the Patriots from a franchise perspective.

However you interpret it, Scott either made a foolish mental gaffe or he let his anti-New England sentiments cloud his judgment… or perhaps both at the same time. Understandably, Scott has since been absolutely roasted and raked over the coals by viewers and fans on social media; but don’t expect an apology or a public admission that he misspoke anytime soon. That wouldn’t be like a former Jet/Raven now, would it?