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Not everyone was thrilled with Jameis Winston’s viral hard count.
Winston sang Baha Men’s famous “Who Let the Dogs Out?” song at the line of scrimmage while unsuccessfully trying to draw the Commanders offside during the Giants’ “Thursday Night Football” loss.
“Get ready, get set, hut one, hut two, hut three,” Winston said in the fourth quarter. “Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who?”
Donte Whitner, who played 11 years in the NFL as a safety, ripped Winston for it.
“I’d cut Jameis Winston this morning,” Whitner said on ESPN’s “Get Up” on Friday. “It was so unrealistic. You have 10 other guys out there and guys on defense that are busting their butt every week, and it’s very hard and difficult to win a game in the National Football League. So, when you get up there – first and foremost, whoever says hut 1, hut 2, hut 3? That’s 1950s football!
“And then when you go into ‘Who Let the Dogs Out’? Are you serious? 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.”
The Commanders didn’t bite, and the Giants opted to punt rather than go for a 4th-and-inches from their own 7-yard line.
Giants coach John Harbaugh, for his own part, did not mind the hard count — at least publicly.
“No, it doesn’t [bother me],” Harbaugh said Friday. “Because it’s not about what you say exactly. That you say ‘hut, hut’ or whatever it is. If you go back and look at the other cadences, it’s kind of a drawn out, different kind of cadence. If you go back and you listen to what Jameis has said throughout the course of the season, you will hear those cadences. So, it sounds a little bit like that.
“And that ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’ thing, well it was, I think, probably, fun, on his part, so to speak. The way the cadence sounds, it was an attempt to still draw them offsides.”
