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After his 13-year NFL career ended in 2014, defensive back Ryan Clark moved onto a career in media as an analyst and has rarely shied away from speaking his mind.

Such is the case this week when he intervened in the Tiki Barber/Saquon Barkley war of words after Barkley — a New York Giants icon — signed a free agent deal with the hated Philadelphia Eagles.

“He’s dead to us now. He’s dead to us. You’re dead to us, Saquon. Good luck. You’re dead to me,” Barber said of Barkley on his radio show this week.

During a recent episode of The Pivot, Clark intervened on the side of Barkley. Remember, Clark began his career with the Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2002 when Barber was at the peak of his great career as a running back.

The two aren’t friendly, to say the least.

Congrats to the family @saquon. Excited he’s now been given what he earned. It’s unfortunate that on a day he & his family were celebrating his new deal he was forced to address Tiki Barber’s “dead to me” foolishness.

Tiki was one of the veterans along with Michael Strahan when… pic.twitter.com/jVitySXhjz

— Ryan Clark (@Realrclark25) March 14, 2024

“Tiki was one of the veterans along with Michael Strahan when I played for the Giants, he taught me everything I refused to be as a veteran,” Clark said. “Tiki was a very good player, but definitely not ‘just one of the guys’ everybody could rock with. I guess some things never change.”

Clark has never been one to avoid controversy but Barber made this attack easy for him. Tiki should have known when the Giants didn’t assign Saquon the franchise tag or make an 11th-hour offer to him that he would end up elsewhere.

That place ended up being Philadelphia, where the convergence of coming home to where he was raised mixed in with a three-year, $37.5 million deal was too good to refuse.