Grant and Danny
The NFL Has Officially Gone Overboard On Taunting
I want you to help calm me down and what am I missing here? the first was on Alan Lazard of the Jets He catches a pass in that rainy game against the Denver Broncos. They're moving down the field He's sitting on his butt legs out in front of him toes up like he's doing the v-sit and reach and he proceeds to I'm gonna call it double guns But I would say that's a little bit misleading. Okay, not even quite the whole of notes double guns that you and me and nerds do And he's not doing. Hey, what's up to the sky? How you doing over there? He's not doing that. He's doing the like If you if you make the shape of a gun with your fingers kind of and then you put up You know the other fingers together and just kind of go back and forth like hey, let's do this We're going that way like that kind of celebrating pointing in the direction. They're going not shooting at anybody not None of that. It's just I'm a cool guy. You're a cool guy Come on guys don't shake it back big play big first down. Nobody can catch passes. No one can throw the ball No one can get yards. It's raining there. There's a quarterback with negative yards at halftime in this game they flag him for a 15-yard penalty for unspots sportsman like conduct because they deemed it to be a Guess anything involving a gun essentially gets you penalized, right now I will I will admit so there was a game. Let me think of what it was. It was the Drake London catch Coming over to the sideline after the game winning touchdown against the Eagles when he came over to the sideline and he Proceeded to like what appeared to be shoot like a machine gun or something celebration into the air Like he was just spraying a magazine into the air with his fake machine gun right in front of the referee Yeah, and they flagged him and were like, hey, dude. It's in the rulebook, man You come on man. You can't mock a firearm and you can't fake shoot things out here. We're not doing that. I got that I totally get that if you pretend you've got a gun and you're shooting or whatever. Yes, sure. No problem This was not that this was little finger guns thing where he's going back and forth and I can't stress this enough Danny It's not like he like loaded his finger and cocked it and shot it like Jordan Reed used to do if you remember that celebration was not that The other one that drove me nuts was first of all, did you see that that play with Lazar? I did. Yeah, thoughts It I don't know how to describe it besides using the term finger guns. So immediately someone's gonna hear that and go Yeah, but you already said done. I don't know how to explain the gesture unless you've seen it It's clearly not what you think of when you think of finger guns. Correct. It's the same thing I would do like double points Yeah, like if I want to shoot a rubber band and I stretch it between my thumb and and four finger And I did that a couple times and it's like a good one with this guy. How you doing? It's not a finger guns thing It's not it's a hey, what's up with this guy kind of thing. It's not finger guns like finger guns to me is different It sounds like a key-and-peel sketch where it's like a third pumps gonna get you. Yeah, it's like like you said finger guns Yeah, you said it's like if you only and now we're getting the new show finger guns I'll go all day on this like if my thumb comes down to indicate a shot Okay, I don't think you even shoot with your thumb But that well, I'm just saying your point But I'm sure I'm letting you know like actions happen if I if I come down on my thumb like this What just happened a shot? I don't think so but I'm just I'm miming some sort of shooting right like all I'm doing here Is sort of like like can I not have I think the pointer can I pretend I'm holding anything it now We're gonna get really deep if he pulls the pointer finger back. That's another one That's mimicking shooting. There's there's no indication of any shots fired here. He all he's doing. Yes is he's doing The way I would describe it like what was he doing? What happens in life when you do that? It's like Gotcha, clary. I gotcha one of the if you're on YouTube right now. I'm gonna do it to the cameras 106 7 the fan YouTube chat you guys get the luxury of seeing this but it's one of those like hey Danny Yeah, I hope you moved your car Uh-huh there they're gonna be towing all the cars it at six o'clock because of the maintenance. They're oh God crap I gotta go gotcha Like it's not even shooter McGavin level Alan Lazar, but it's kind of Alan Lazar got penalized for that the National Football League as a grown-ass man a grown adult taking on other grown men other grown adults I can't have it. I'm sorry. I can't do it It doesn't need to be a big political debate I'm not picking aside because I agree with what I agree with you guys But I'm just telling you he doesn't need to be penalized for that. Okay, the other one was Jeremy McNichols Jeremy McNichols who has been on 12 NFL teams in his career 12 who got to play because Austin Eckler was unavailable who got a very rare chance to get on the football field They say act like you've been there before what if you never get to be there? Right. What if in your entire journeyman career that dates back seven years eight years you've been there once With your loan touchdown in the pandemic year of 2020 because there was a COVID outbreak on your team or whatever What if that's the time you got there? So he gets in the game and he's having a field day 27 yard tuddy rips off another one exclamation point to win the game He does the old Josh Norman not even to the extent that Norman did it. Okay, Norman would would basically grab the arrow out of the pouch on the back He did it in a cool way He would like shoot the arrow pull the bow back and and let it rip and he'd watch it fly McNichols did a really quick less Weapon version of that I would say mm-hmm penalty unsportsman like who Are you protecting? Who are you worried about? I cannot believe these are the types of things the league cares about I can't Fernando Rodney in Major League Baseball who pitched forever for the Rays and some other teams He was on the next during the World Series team. Thank you That's for World Series champion Fernando Rodney He was a horrific in the playoffs and for much of the regular season, but he has a World Series ring Yep, he used to have this awesome cellie. Do you remember his cell? Of course. Yeah, cuz hats not on straight. You have to start there like you just could never put it on straight Like you probably could have but he never did you're so straighted it up years old Maybe face it straight. I love how he wears that. Yeah, but you did he cocked it to the side Mm-hmm. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with having hair that you can see? What do you mean? Well people have hair sometimes I what so like you can't have long hair on Grant's team. Tell me I'm old Put your head on straight also. It's a uniform put your hat on straight. Yeah, or tilt it to the side. Yeah, just tuck your hair in it That's all. Yeah, that's all you got to do, right? Anyway Fernando Rodney Would after every save he'd walk down the mound and he would have like one or two teammates come over to watch And he would pretend to pull that bow out Rosin up my bow and he would shoot it into the sky and he would like track it with his hand and he'd point up and everyone would like Follow this fake. It was just a thing every game in baseball The no fun like baseball where nothing is allowed where if you look at me, I'm gonna hit you If you don't look at the right dugout you are villain number one Brian McCann is still He's still upset the houses of people who wronged him in 2006 because they didn't run fast enough out of the matter you disrespect the a That sport goes. Hey, look at Fernando Rodney cool celebrates That's fine, and then he and the NFL penalizes you 15% of a football field After a touchdown for your one-half second arrow shooting celebration Get out of here with that. So remember when Rhonda Vera who's on the competition committee was talking about like the idea that players in this highly competitive You know alpha situation getting in car wrecks time after time might say something to one another and That became the point of emphasis like what if after I run you over or I just stiff-armed you into oblivion I mentioned that you just got stiff-armed into oblivion if I say something to we got to penalize that We can't have anything that might lead to anything that might lead to anything that might also lead to something that might be construed as Men having a verbal disagreement that might lead to a punch being thrown or a shove or something like that Whereas it's like in hockey. It's like well, listen this one check was a little hard on the good player So we're gonna have a guy walk around and drop his gloves in the hopes to they both get five-minute majors and everyone claps hard Like it's just such a weird thing to me that in this incredibly violent game There's not even you're not even allowed to express any of it verbally that that's a point of emphasis wrong This is nonsense. If you want to get rid of something. Let's get rid of choreographed river dances Let's get rid of everyone's going row row row your boat. We scored a TD I'm wasting play clock time. The special teams are trying to take the field. What are we doing? Let's get rid of that. You don't have to get rid of that either if we're going I'd love to if we're picking something to rid ourselves of This guy That should be fine. The this guy should be fine. The okay everyone like to rehearse a one and a two and a jazz hands No, let's get rid of that act like you've been there once be a professional for seven seconds You could be happy to have fun. I can't believe it's the point of emphasis. I can't believe it