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Jameis Winston tried to have some fun at the Commanders’ expense on Thursday night
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The Giants quarterback sang the chorus from the Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out” to try to draw the team offsides
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Despite his effort, Washington didn’t fall for the trick
Jameis Winston unlocked a new level of quarterback behavior while trying to draw the Washington Commanders offsides on Thursday night.
Inserted late into the game for starter J.J. McCarthy on a short 4th-and-1 opportunity, the New York Giants backup barked the chorus of the Baha Men’s “Who Let the Dogs Out” in an attempt to catch the Commanders by surprise.
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“Who let the dogs out?” Winston, 32, screamed at the line of scrimmage. “Who! Who!”
The hilarious moment was not lost on the Thursday Night Football crew in the booth.
“You got to be kidding me!” Al Michaels said as the microphones picked up what Winston was laying down.
Jameis Winston
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“What is he doing?” analyst Kirk Herbstreit joked.
Alas, Winston’s rendition of the Baha Men’s 2000 classic did little to fool the Commanders’ defense. The Giants took a five-yard penalty and punted from their 11-yard-line — later losing the game 24-21 to the division rival.
Winston’s antics hardly surprised his teammates or coach John Harbaugh.
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“Yeah, I knew that,” Harbaugh later said about Winston’s canine-influenced cadence. “That was part of the cadence there. That was part of the cadence. Teams do jump in those situations sometimes. That was the idea.”
Following the game, the Broadway aficionado explained his unusual snap call.
“Just practicing that with the team,” Winston told reporters. “The defenses are trying to jump the rhythm. Came up with that. Wish we could’ve got them to jump offsides.”
For fans of the unconventional backup, the lyrical moment also came as little surprise.
In a press conference last year in which he oozed excitement about starting as the team’s signal-caller against the Packers, Winston referenced Hamilton — and sang a line from “The Schuyler Sisters.”
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“I want fans to know that I’m going to do my best,” Winston said earnestly. “Obviously, I’m going to have fun, but I’m going to execute — have a surgical execution — and just play ball, man.”
He then broke into song: “This is something I’ve been doing since I’ve been four years old. Now, I get to do it in the greatest city in the world. I’m gonna be singing it with my son.”
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