Jameis Winston is a professional content creator despite his title of New York Giants backup quarterback. Some people can’t get enough of his cartoonish persona, while others see right through it.
Former NFL defensive back Donte Whitner has announced himself as a member of the latter group.
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On Thursday night, the Giants lost a 24-21 heartbreaker to the visiting Washington Commanders. Late in the fourth quarter, Giants head coach John Harbaugh trotted out Winston to try to draw the Commanders offside on a fourth-and-1.
The Prime Video broadcast picked up Winston’s obnoxious cadence.
“Get ready! Get set! Hut 1, hut 2, hut 3!”
Alright, that’s performative, but not particularly memorable.
But then Winston started singing the 2000 Baha Men hit “Who Let The Dogs Out.”
Plenty of people thought it was hilarious, including Prime’s Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit, but Whitner didn’t crack a smile.
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“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 other there, and guys on defense, 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, who ever 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?” Whitner continued. “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.”
Harry Douglas admitted to “crying laughing” in disbelief while watching Winston’s antics in his hotel room before Get Up host Mike Greenberg recentered the conversation on Whitner’s critique. Greenberg asked Douglas to weigh in on Winston seemingly “not taking seriously trying to get the other team to jump.”
“If anybody for the Washington Commanders would have jumped on ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’? If I’m [Washington head coach] Dan Quinn, I’m cutting their a**,” Douglas said.
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Greenberg disclosed that everyone at Get Up laughed about it in the production meeting, except for Whitner. “I didn’t find it funny,” Whitner confirmed.
On Friday, reporters asked Harbaugh whether Winston’s colorful cadence bothered him.
“That ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’ thing, while it was, I think, probably fun on his part, so to speak, the way the cadence sounds, it was still an attempt to still draw them offsides,” Harbaugh said, per SNY.
“Does it bother me? No,” Harbaugh added. “I heard him do it in practice.”
The Giants briefly turned to Winston after Jaxson Dart underwent season-ending knee surgery in September. Winston’s short-lived stint as starting quarterback ended in Week 7, when the Giants opted for J.J. McCarthy. New York acquired McCarthy from the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 28.
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The Giants (5-3-1) will next host the Jacksonville Jaguars (6-2) at MetLife Stadium on Nov. 22.
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