Daniel Jones seemed mostly calm during his first NFL start on Sunday, although he was pretty fired up when Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicker Matt Gay missed the game-winning kick and the New York Giants claimed victory in the rookie quarterback’s first game.
But there was one moment that shocked his teammates and motivated them to come back after being down 28-10 at the end of the half.
It was an expletive out of Jones’s mouth in the huddle that raised some eyebrows. But according to those same members of the Giants, it got them going.
It came right before his first of two rushing scores of the day:
And here’s the reaction. From NJ Advance Media:
“(He) cussed one time,” wide receiver Russell Shepard said. “I ain’t never heard him scream. He started screaming and cussing. We were in the red zone and he was like, ‘Let’s f—ing score.’” …
“The fact that the did that (curse) was an eye-opener because we never seen him get out of his personality,” Shepard said. “He’s very mellow, very mild-mannered individual. He doesn’t get too high or too low. To see him get like that was pretty impressive. That was the thing that propelled us offensively to keep fighting.”
Whatever works!
