I wouldn't exactly consider this surprising. As a league that takes pride in it's ability to kill a buzz, the NFL was bound to try to figuratively take the piss out of a career-best performance by literally taking the piss out of the player who put it forth. Never mind that Chris Banjo's second interception came compliments of a quarterback who might as well have attached his hand towel to the ball prior since it very much served as the throwing of a white flag, because there is nothing the NFL cares more about than maintaining what little integrity they do have through suspiciously "random" drug tests. Anyways, if anything, this is really just a huge compliment to the New Orleans Saints and a special teams' ace that made the most of his garbage time opportunity to get in on the fun of emasculating the Eagles. Up against last year's midseason favorite for MVP and the eventual Super Bowl champions, and even the reserves were flexing their muscles in way that made the league question whether or not they were artificially enhanced. The NFL might as well have given Chris Banjo and the rest of the 'Boonk gang' boys a breathalyzer while they were at it, because you could just as easily use the same thought process to determine that a once vulnerable defense couldn't possibly play so loose, confident, and carefree without some liquid courage.
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