Warren Sapp arrested by Miami Police for battery charges
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The NFL Network has pulled former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Oakland Raiders defensive lineman Warren Sapp from their Super Bowl XLIV coverage because he is being questioned by Miami authorities regarding a domestic violence case according to a NFL source.
Sapp, 37, was reportedly seen by detectives and questioned on Saturday afternoon, and news circulated late Saturday about his arrest.
Per reports, the former sack-master was charged with one count of misdemeanor domestic battery and is expected to appear before a Miami-Dade County judge Sunday, Miami Beach police spokesman Juan Sanchez said.
In recent weeks, Sapp has ripped Raiders head coach Tom Cable.
“For me to say something about the man right now, would be a little, you know, disingenuous,” Sapp told the Dan Patrick show.
“Tom Cable don’t even know that the defensive lineman knows his protection when he goes into a ballgame,” Sapp said. “I was standing in front of the man, he tells me to rush his offensive line. I said, ‘Okay, what set are you coming out in?’ He looks at me and says, ‘What? No, I just want you to rush.’”
He continued: “I said, ‘Let me understand this. You’re gonna break the huddle, you come out into a formation. It’ll be two receivers, three receivers, whatever you want to do. But there’s some way you have to protect. And I would know that, 90% of the time. He looked at me like I was speaking Chinese.”
Sapp piled on by saying, “He’s not qualified to be an offensive line coach in my book.
“Because he doesn’t know I know which way his center’s going 90% of the time. He blew my mind with that one. I said, ‘Son, you think I got all these sacks ’cause I’m guessing which way the center’s going?’”
In a statement released on Saturday, “We have been made aware of the arrest of Warren Sapp by the Miami Beach Police Department,” a NFL network statement said. “In light of these circumstances, Warren Sapp will not appear on NFL Network while we review the matter.”
