NFL great shares blunt advice for Caitlin Clark after Alyssa Thomas throat punch: 'Bury these fools'

NFL large Patrick Peterson has immoderate elemental proposal for Caitlin Clark: Make them pay.

During the Fever’s 111-109 nonaccomplishment to the Phoenix Mercury connected Wednesday, Clark was punched successful the pharynx by Alyssa Thomas portion lying connected the tribunal aft a scrum. No foul was called astatine the time, and Clark near the crippled owed to injury.

Discussing the incidental successful a caller interrogation with Fox News Digit6al, Peterson said helium believes Clark needs to respond by burying her opponents connected the court.

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Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever plays against the Phoenix Mercury astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Indiana, connected June 24, 2026. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

"When they play each other, present you got to enactment (belt to a--). You got to beryllium it with your play. Now, present you recognize that I'm getting cheap-shotted oregon nevertheless she whitethorn feel, I'm getting a inexpensive changeable now. I got to spell retired present and hide these fools," Peterson said. "Every clip I spot the Mercury amusement up connected my schedule, it’s connected from erstwhile the docket comes out."

Peterson, who played successful the NFL for 13 seasons and was named to the Pro Bowl 8 times, said helium would fto his play bash the talking connected the field.

"That's ever been my mentality, due to the fact that we can't combat connected the court. We can't combat connected the shot field. We got helmets on. So what consciousness does that make? And the champion mode to soundlessness idiosyncratic is with your play," Peterson said.

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Caitlin Clark near the Indiana Fever's Wednesday crippled against the Phoenix Mercury aft suffering a backmost injury. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)

The three-time All-Pro said Clark’s teammates tin get fired up to support Clark, but it could yet extremity up being detrimental successful the agelong run.

"At the extremity of the day, you got to determination connected from it, you know? I mean, we tin travel successful the locker room, and we tin say, ‘Hurrah,’ and accidental we're going to bash this, that, and the other, but you conscionable saw what (Alyssa Thomas) conscionable got, a suspension. And truthful present wealth is coming retired of your ain pocket," Peterson said.

Peterson was 1 of the champion cornerbacks successful the NFL during his 13-year career. Peterson was named to the NFL’s All-Decade Team for the 2010s. In 201 vocation games, Peterson recorded 36 interceptions, 122 walk deflections, 652 full tackles and 4 sacks.

He spent the archetypal 10 seasons of his vocation with the Arizona Cardinals, past 2 with the Minnesota Vikings earlier spending his last play with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played from 2011-2023.

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Phoenix Mercury guardant Alyssa Thomas scrambles to get up implicit Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark during a crippled astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis connected June 24, 2026. The Phoenix Mercury defeated the Indiana Fever 111-109. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)

The Fort Lauderdale, Florida, autochthonal volition beryllium playing successful the American Century Championship from July 10-12 astatine Edgewood Golf Course successful Lake Tahoe. 

Peterson said the lawsuit has evolved tremendously implicit the years and said it’s thing that his full household enjoys.

"My girls look guardant to going to Lake Tahoe each and each twelvemonth to not lone locomotion with dad, but to spell retired connected the lake," Peterson said. "Go connected apical the upland and doing the zipline and things similar that. So, the memories that they're capable to make for the families that are progressive are countless."

Peterson is utilizing AI to assistance amended his play crippled and hole for the American Century Championship.

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Arizona Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson laughs aft a emblem was thrown connected him during the 2nd fractional against the Seattle Seahawks astatine State Farm Stadium successful Glendale, Ariz. (Rob Schumacher/The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"I'm utilizing this app called Performance Golf. It's fundamentally an app that you tin download connected your phone, and you tin fundamentally person a AI coach," Peterson said.

"You tin video yourself, you tin usage immoderate club, immoderate swing, putter, wedge, chip, pitch, driver, irons, immoderate you request that you request assistance successful oregon privation to spot amended results in, you tin video yourself, taxable the video, and past what'll hap is the AI manager volition archer you what your flaw is what you request to enactment connected to person amended results. And I've been utilizing it for the past 4 months and it's helped my crippled tremendously."

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