Skip Bayless calls Jameis Winston's cadence clownish and suggests he wanted the publicity
Skip BaylessSports commentator, on the Gridiron show
Bayless calls Winston's cadence clownish and silly, and asks why Winston would do it when he knew it would go viral, suggesting he may have wanted the publicity.
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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.
“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.”
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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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Bayless announces that he and Aqib Talib are live on Gridiron at 12:30 p.m. ET to break down the Giants' loss to the Commanders.
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Reports Skip Bayless's and Aqib Talib's comments on Winston's cadence on the Gridiron show.
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Bayless discussed the Giants' 24-21 loss to the Commanders with Aqib Talib on Gridiron the day after the game, and described Winston moving from a conventional count to 'Who Let the Dogs Out.'
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Talib, appearing with Bayless, said he laughed at the cadence at first but thought the Giants were going to lose.
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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. Bayless calls the cadence clownish and suggests Winston did it for publicity, which criticizes the conduct, 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
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
Donte Whitner says he would cut Jameis Winston and that Winston was trying to go viral
“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.”Read statement
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