Wednesday: Jonathan Gannon Fined

Cardinals HC fined $100K for a physical interaction Emari Demercado for dropping the ball before crossing the goal line

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
The coach for the Cardinals, Jonathan Gannon, was quite upset
with Murray de Marcado, who dropped the ball as he
was about to celebrate his seventy yard touchdown run the
other day in the Cardinals game against Tennessee, and that,
among other things, allowed Tennessee to come back in the

(00:24):
game and win it. And he went to the sideline after.
De Marcado was obviously upset with himself. He knew what
he had done wrong, and he got admonished and kind
of dressed down in front of the world, which I
think he was deserving of. That is a lack of concentration.
It's a lack of it's totally about making it about

(00:46):
you instead about your team. I don't know what happened
to the EMMITTT. Smith deal. Act like you've been there,
Act like it's important that you're there this time and
that you're going to be back there so many times
that it's not really worth celebrating. That's where you're supposed
to be, that's not where you're gonna that's not the
end all of your life or your career. Get in
the end zone and take the ball with you and
put it in the equipment trunk. But over the last

(01:07):
fifteen or twenty years, maybe even longer than that, we
see this trend. Players as they're about to cross the
goal line or once they get in the end of
the end zone, they want to get rid of the football.
Why take it all the way through the back of
the end zone and then run to the official and
hand it to it. That should become the rule for
every team. Pete Carroll brought up a story the other

(01:31):
day where he tells all of his players that are
going to potentially score touchdowns, what's your celebration dance when
you score? Because we don't want you to throwing the
ball into the stands, we don't want you to dunk
the ball on the goalposts. There's things that we don't
want you to do that could cause us to get
fined or penalized on the kickoff. So we need to

(01:51):
make sure that your celebration actually works for us. And
that's the thing that I think, more than anything else,
teams need to do. And that way that would ensure
that you don't get rid of the football until you
hand the ball to the official or take it to
the training staff. That should be the mindset. So now
he got fined one hundred thousand dollars. And originally the

(02:12):
story was the fine was because he dressed him down
in front of the world. The actual fine is because
of the contact that he made with him. Now, he's
a football coach that's probably not in as good as
shape as his as his running back, and his running
backs got shoulder pads on. Remember a few weeks ago,
there was I think it was either a Sunday or
Monday night game where Jason Travis Kelsey did something stupid.

(02:36):
Then they messed up the play and Andy Reid was
barking at him, and he came off the sideline and
Andy Reid stuck his shoulder into his shoulder pads and
like a little more or less a love bump. Yeah,
nobody really paid too much attention to that. And so
if somebody's like, you know, get your head in the
game and they slap you on the shoulder pads. Now,
if he hit him in the face, I would say
that's a little bit too far. But get your head

(02:58):
in the game, and a few bombs here and there
and a little open hand slapped to the shoulder pads
that got his attention. I guarantee you he'll never do
that again, and he'll take my advice and carry that
ball throughout the back of the end zone and up
the tunnel if necessary. But we live in a world
now where you can't cut players, and certainly the Cardinals
can't cut guys because they're out of running backs. He's

(03:19):
number two on their depth chart and he's going to
continue to play a lot. But you do deserve to
be dressed down. You do deserve to be called out
by your coach because the one thing that the coach
is invested in and all the players are invested in
is concentration and focus and making it about the team.
And you did something individually that costs the team a win.

(03:40):
And I want you to know, darn good and well
that this is not acceptable. And also understand that if
this were twenty five or thirty years earlier and you
had a guy like Jimmy Johnson or Bill Parcells coaching you,
I don't care. Unless you are an All Pro or
I had a lifetime contract with you, you wouldn't have
been on the team the next day.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Andy, I'm gonna sell right now. I'm gonna give you
a perspective just because, as you know, I'm a coach's kid.
So I've been on the sidelines a lot growing up,
in the fieldhouse a lot growing up, and whenever plays
like that happen, there is what they have like acceptable
contact with the players, and essentially it's a lot of
times like you know, you can grab by the jersey
and getting their face, obviously you can't, you know, physically
touch their skin. The jersey's fine. What Jonathan Gannea did

(04:20):
was really more of a shoulder shove on the way
up after, like you said, undressing him in front of
the world. I think what this is is more along
the lines of with the margin Mercado him and I
believe it's Michael Carter the two backs because their primary
two backs are both on ir This was him, This
was his shining moment because up to this point he
had six career carries. And while it's not uncommon, it

(04:41):
should be, but it's not uncommon to see players do
this in modern football. I think ultimately what it is
is just like I think the moment is caught up
too much to them that this is their first touchdown
or it's a big deal touchdown in this game, that
they soon to forget that the that you have to
cross the plane first, because now they were they replay
every score and play.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, but I don't understand the idea of giving up
the ball, and that to me is I mean, maybe
I just missed it thirty years ago, but it just
I see it at every level. As soon as they
get in the end zone and either they're five or
seven yards in, they throw it behind their back, or
they drop it or you know, go hand the ball
physically to the official that's trailing the player back in
the back in the play someplace. All right, football NFL

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