FORMER NFL star Jason McCourty has broken his silence after leaving Good Morning Football.

The 36-year-old sportscaster quit the NFL Network show last month after two years.

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Good Morning Football is currently on hiatus over the summer as it switches filming locations from New York to Los Angeles.

McCourty’s co-stars Jamie Erdahl and Kyle Brandt have already confirmed they will return in the fall.

But ex-NFL star McCourty has decided to move on from both the show and the network.

He told SI Media with Jimmy Traina the switch to the West Coast wasn’t one he was prepared to make with a young family.

“Beyond selfish ambition within the industry to continue my career, I couldn’t come up with one good reason to move my wife and three kids out of New Jersey,” McCourty said.

“Quality of life, it wouldn’t feel like as a husband and as a father, not just a cohost on a show, how I was going to keep all those plates spinning at the same time, was also going to be a challenge.”

McCourty currently calls NFL games for CBS Sports and is in talks with the broadcaster over his role next season, per Barrett Sport.

But he admitted it was a “shock” when the NFL Network announced GMFB’s location change out West.

“When that news hit the beginning of March [that] at the end of March it’s going to be our last show in New York, originally, you know, like anybody, you’re like, ‘Screw them, I’m not going to LA.’

“I think as time went on, the realization is like, ‘I really love the show. I love being around the people that are involved in the show.

“Even above us, it was a shock to them trying to figure out how to keep the show going.

“For them, they looked at it like, ‘Hey, LA is a way to keep our show going and keep it Good Morning Football.

“So the hope I think was for all four of us to go and pick the pieces up and put it all together and figure it out.

“But yeah, it was a shock to all of us.

“In this industry, I’m quickly finding out, no different than football, you don’t know what’s behind Door No. 2.”

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NFL Network producers have reportedly looked at Manti Te’o and Akbar Gbajabiamila as potential replacements for McCourty, per The Athletic.

The show is currently on hiatus but is scheduled to return on September 1.

“The one realization I’ve had is everybody is replaceable,” McCourty added.

“We all like to think of ourselves in this very unique way and how special we are and how talented we are.

“I’m not naive to think they can’t find somebody better than me and keep the thing going.”