Talk about your ultimate foreshadowing moment many years after the fact.

NFL players destroy each other on Sundays not just through the use of shoulder pads, but with vocal cords. Never has the NFL seen this much smack-talk down-to-down, but what former New York Jets and Baltimore Ravens inside linebacker Bart Scott revealed recently goes beyond your average trash-talking.

As host of WFAN's Afternoon Drive with Maggie Gray and Chris Carlin, Scott revealed how his former Jets teams used to taunt New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, via WFAN and later relayed by Will Brinson of CBS Sports.

“Let me tell you what the running joke was with Hernandez — as players, we used to always mess with Hernandez when we were on the field and say, ‘Hey man, I heard they found the body.' We thought it was a joke, because we knew something had happened in Florida,” Scott said. “So the whole running joke was ‘I heard they found the body.' We all knew he was a bad guy. There had been stories floating with this guy for years.”

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It didn't stop there. Scott also mentioned how the entire team (and, most naturally, the entire league) were set in the thinking that Hernandez's activities reached gangland activity.

“We knew he was in a gang. A lot of players are in gangs. A lot of us grow up in gangs, and what happens is it's hard to remove yourself,” Scott explained. “But what happens is you're removed by distance. The people in my neighborhood are 10 hours away. The hardest thing for Hernandez is they are right there. You can't mature and distance yourself from them because they were there Day 1. Day 1 they're at the party, so you're not hanging with your teammates, you're hanging with them.”

Obviously, Hernandez would later be imprisoned on a murder rap, thus removing him from the NFL. He would also go on to tragically commit suicide while behind bars.

His attorney continues to claim Hernandez suffered from a severe case of CTE, part of the reason his name keeps popping up from time-to-time, but Bart Scott just took Hernandez news to a brand-new eerily accurate level.

Doing their best to replace legendary sports talk radio host Mike Francesa, the trio needs something to put the show into high-gear. Perhaps Scott revealing such a merciless smack-talk example is exactly what the show needed.

Maybe not. Either way, the trash-talking has reached such a level these days that very little could actually shock the senses.

Aaron Hernandez played only three seasons in the NFL (2010-2012), all with the New England Patriots. He racked up 175 receptions, 1,956 yards and 18 total touchdowns in 38 games played. When healthy, he was one-half of one of the most dangerous tight-end duos in recent memory (Rob Gronkowski).