Jets Great Bart Scott Pays Emotional Tribute To Former Teammate Nick Mangold

Bart Scott has joined nan chorus of people paying tribute to Nick Mangold.

On Sunday, the Jets announced Mangold had died owed to complications from chronic kidney disease. He was 41 years old.

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Scott, a erstwhile Jets linebacker, was teammates pinch Mangold from 2009 to '12, and discussed nan All-Pro halfway during nan team's pregame show connected SNY.

"A nonaccomplishment for words is really what my first guidance is," Scott said. "It doesn't consciousness real. It still doesn't consciousness real. My bosom conscionable goes retired for his children and his woman and his family. I mean, that was his world and he was their world and he was our world, right? He was bigger than life, right?"

Scott discussed really he and Mangold would ever spell back-and-forth successful believe successful a good-natured way, calling him, "The thorn successful my side."

"He'll beryllium missed, and I still can't judge it," Scott said. "It still hasn't soaked successful yet, and I miss my friend... It's not expected to extremity this way. And it's conscionable a reminder... really important it is for america to stock our feelings pinch each different because nary man knows nan clip aliases nan day. So you person to unrecorded each time for illustration it's your past because it could be. And make judge that nan ones that you love, you punctual them of really overmuch you emotion them."

His afloat comments are below.

That's a awesome connection by Scott, echoing overmuch of what was said astir Mangold connected Sunday.

The Jets selected Mangold pinch nan 29th wide prime successful nan 2006 NFL draft, and he went connected to beryllium an all-time awesome for nan franchise. During his 11-year career, Mangold was named first-team All-Pro doubly and second-team All-Pro once. He was a seven-time Pro Bowler and was inducted into nan Jets' Ring of Honor successful 2022.

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