Bart Scott has clarified his remarks about Tee Higgins.

The former NFL linebacker went viral earlier this week after saying on ESPN that Higgins lowered his helmet into Damar Hamlin’s chest on the play in which the Bills safety suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field after making a routine tackle. Hamlin has since awoken and communicated with teammates.

On ESPN New York’s “Bart & Hahn” on Wednesday, Alan Hahn asked Scott if Higgins was at fault for Hamlin’s collapse.

“Not at all,” Scott said. “This is a football play, like I said before, that you see this type of tackle 100 times in a football game. It’s just one of those unfortunate things — wrong place, wrong time. We’ve seen this happen. It’s no different from anything that happens in any other sport. It’s a freak accident, and nobody’s at fault.”

There were a number of vocal critics to Scott’s original commentary, including star Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons.

“Yoo are we serious?!!?” Parsons tweeted. “Why do we let some people speak on tv?! This was a freak incident but putting fault on another player is wild! They should make some of these guys go over lines or something or not even give them a seat at the table!”

On his radio show, Scott insisted that his comments were misconstrued and that the clip that went viral excluded context of what he had said earlier in the program.

“In the first segment, if they would’ve paid attention to it, they would have heard that the first thing I did was express my concern for Tee Higgins, because there were reports that he was walking out with his head down on his mother’s shoulder. So I was expressing concern. I was so happy that his mother was there to console him because it’s important to check on him as well because he may feel responsible.

“I expressed that concern and I said that this was just a freak accident that happened [on a routine play] that happens 1,000 times on a football field. In no way am I blaming anybody. We play a violent sport and freaky, fluky stuff happens. That was what I was trying to express, but I had expressed that already in the beginning. This was the third segment of us moving forward, of me trying to explain it, and maybe I wasn’t concise. It was an emotional day for everybody and it was tough for everybody.”

Scott went on to say that Higgins was seeking contact as opposed to trying to run away from Hamlin, which might have caught the safety by surprise.