What happened during the sideline exchange between running back Michael Carter and running backs coach Taylor Embree?
Carter took the blame.
“I have to control myself,” he said. “I know better.”
Carter noted that the argument was the result of two competitive people having an animated conversation. He insisted it had nothing to do with any specific assignment or play.
“People are going to say what they want to say about it, but if you’ve never been on an NFL football field, strapped it up and played for something important, then they can’t relate to me,” Carter said. “To my guys and anybody who saw it, people know that’s not me . . . I love the game and Embree knows that. And he loves the game too. We’re both alphas and we butt heads sometimes. But that’s the first time I ever even spatted off with anybody in a game.”
Carter went on to say that he and his coach smoothed things over shortly after the flare-up.
Does that incident, along with another exchange involving Garrett Wilson, Zach Wilson and offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett, indicate a level of frustration?
It would seem so, but Carter doesn’t see it that way.
“I think that’s a reach,” he said. “Frustrated is not the word. We’re eager. Because we know how good we are. We just want to win.”
Why did Sauce Gardner shove Patriots quarterback Mac Jones after a sneak in the third quarter?
Gardner said it was because after the play, Jones stuck out his hand for help up from the ground and Gardner refused it. Then, when Jones did get to his feet, he “hit me in my private parts,” according to Gardner.
“That’s probably the first time that’s ever happened to me,” Gardner said. “I didn’t react how I wanted to, but that was just the reaction that came after that. I definitely wasn’t expecting that.”
Maybe he should have been. Last season Jones was involved in a play against Chicago in which he slid after a scramble and raised his…
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