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Jameis Winston was looking for the answer to a 26-year-old question.
On a 4th-and-1 play at the Giants’ 12-yard line with 3:41 remaining and Big Blue leading 21-17, the veteran QB went all the way back to 2000 to try to get the Commanders to jump offsides with his hard count.
“Ready, get set, hut one, hut two, hut three!” he shouted before breaking out the classic Baha Men tune: “Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who?”
The ploy didn’t work as the play clock ran out on the Giants, and they were forced to punt it away with 3:27 left in an eventual 24-21 loss.
Winston’s attempt did, however, get some laughs out of the Prime Video booth.
“You gotta be kidding,” play-by-play man Al Michaels said with an audible chuckle on the “Thursday Night Football” broadcast.
“What is he doing?” analyst Kirk Herbstreit said through a laugh.
Winston initially tried to act nonchalant about his cadence, like every quarterback does it. Where did it come from?
Except he mistakenly credited Baha Men’s biggest hit to the Black Eyed Peas.
“Good song, back in the early 2000s,” Winston said.
Why did he do it?
“To get the defense to jump offsides,” Winston deadpanned.
Winston thought he moved the chains on third down, which would have rendered the fourth down irrelevant.
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“It just had a nice ring to it,” Winston eventually offered.
Head coach John Harbaugh said the song title is “part of the cadence.”
“Teams do jump in that situation sometimes,” he added, “so that was the idea.”
Left tackle Andrew Thomas said that the offense wasn’t lobbying the coaches to go for it. In the end, no one let the dogs out.
“That was a new thing this week [in practice] that Jameo did,” Thomas said.
