Donte Whitner says he would cut Jameis Winston and that Winston was trying to go viral
Donte WhitnerFormer NFL safety, as an analyst on ESPN's Get Up
Whitner says he would cut Winston, calls the cadence unrealistic given the work the other players put in, and says Winston was trying to go viral on social media while the Giants were trying to win.
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Jameis Winston used the 'Who Let the Dogs Out' cadence to go viral on social media rather than to help the Giants win the game.
“I'd cut Jameis Winston this morning ... He's clearly just trying to go viral on social media while they're trying to win a football game. He'd get his pink slip this morning.”
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Jameis Winston's 'Who Let the Dogs Out' hard count fails to draw the Commanders offside; Donte Whitner says the Giants should cut him, and John Harbaugh says it does not bother him
Late in the New York Giants' 24-21 Thursday Night Football loss to the Washington Commanders, backup quarterback Jameis Winston used the chorus of the Baha Men song "Who Let the Dogs Out" in his cadence on fourth-and-1 from the Giants' 11-yard line, trying to draw Washington offside. The Commanders did not jump, and the Giants took a delay-of-game penalty and punted. After the game, Winston and coach John Harbaugh said the cadence was a practiced attempt to draw a penalty. The next morning on ESPN's Get Up, former safety Donte Whitner said he would cut Winston and that Winston was trying to go viral on social media. Skip Bayless and Aqib Talib also criticized the cadence, while Harbaugh said on Friday that it did not bother him.
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Reports Whitner's remarks on ESPN's Get Up and Harbaugh's answer when asked about the cadence on Friday.
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Reports Whitner's Get Up remarks, the panel's reaction and Harbaugh's Friday answer as relayed by SNY.
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On Thursday night, Winston used the chorus of 'Who Let the Dogs Out' in his cadence on fourth-and-1 while trying to draw the Commanders offside. The Commanders did not jump, and the Giants punted.
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Whitner said on the same show that he did not find the cadence funny. Harbaugh said on Friday that the cadence did not bother him.
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The case asks whether Winston's 'Who Let the Dogs Out' cadence was an acceptable play or something the Giants should answer for. Whitner says he would cut Winston and calls the cadence an attempt to go viral, which criticizes the conduct itself, so we labeled it condemns.
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Read the full caseAqib Talib says Winston treated the moment as a joke and that it makes a team lose
“It was a joke to him ... That makes you lose.”Read statement
Skip Bayless calls Jameis Winston's cadence clownish and suggests he wanted the publicity
“His cadence is just clownish to me ... But my point is, why would Jameis do that? He knows he's going to go viral. Maybe he just wants the publicity of it.”Read statement
John Harbaugh says Winston's cadence does not bother him and that he heard it in practice
“Does it bother me? No. I heard him do it in practice”Read statement
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