Jameis Winston says the team practiced the cadence to make the defense jump
Jameis WinstonNew York Giants quarterback, speaking after the game
After the game, Winston says the team had practiced the cadence because defenses try to jump the rhythm, that he came up with it, and that he wished Washington had jumped offside.
“The defenses are trying to jump the rhythm. Came up with that. Wish we could've got them to jump offsides.”
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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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ESPN's report on the play, with Winston's and Harbaugh's postgame explanations of the cadence.
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Reports reactions to the cadence, including Jac Collinsworth's post on X and Winston's and Harbaugh's postgame comments.
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Winston was asked about the cadence after the Giants' 24-21 loss. He said the team had been practicing it.
After the quotation
Asked why he chose that song, Winston said it had a nice ring to it. He credited the song to the Black Eyed Peas rather than the Baha Men.
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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. Winston describes the cadence as a practiced attempt to draw Washington offside, which defends the play as a real tactic, so we labeled it as a defense of the play.
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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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