Indianapolis Colts interim head coach Jeff Saturday known as Giants go rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux’s snow angel celebration subsequent to an injured Nick Foles “tasteless” and “trash” on Monday.
Saturday additionally expressed disappointment within the Colts’ offensive linemen for not doing something about Thibodeaux’s showboating in Sunday’s second quarter at MetLife Stadium.
“Tasteless from the celebration afterwards,” Saturday mentioned on Zoom. “Just trash. Not a fan of it at all. And yeah, disappointed from the O-line perspective and from teammates in general. We protect our own man.”
Colts heart Ryan Kelly did rip Thibodeaux after Sunday’s 38-10 Giants win.
“Hopefully his teammates will – maybe one day he’ll learn that injuries happen in this league,” Kelly informed Colts.com. “You never want [that] to happen to the guy that you’re going against. That’s just horsesh-t.”
But no Colts participant retaliated on the sector. And Saturday promised to talk on to his gamers about it.
“I’m just gonna tread lightly,” he mentioned. “Obviously I didn’t like it at all. And that’s where I’ll leave it. We’ll have a discussion about it.”
Thibodeaux, for his half, mentioned after the sport that he didn’t know Foles was harm whereas he was celebrating.
He expressed shock that folks on social media thought he would have fun like that if he’d recognized Foles was badly injured.
“When I did realize that he was hurt, that’s when we started getting up,” Thibodeaux informed reporters at his locker, per ESPN. “When you’re doing a celebration, you’re not looking to see who’s doing what. But I hope he gets well, and I hope he’s all right.”
The Giants rookie edge rusher additionally did the “go to sleep” signal together with his fingers on the sideline a minute after the sack, although. So on the very least, this must be lesson for him in optics, it doesn’t matter what his intentions.
Because no matter what he meant to do, it wasn’t look.
Giants head coach Brian Daboll spoke on Zoom earlier on Monday earlier than Saturday blasted Thibodeaux. But Daboll defended Thibodeaux when requested about that scene.
“Quite sure that he didn’t know the player was hurt,” the Giants’ head coach. “Kayvon is a good young man, and I know he responded to questions about that yesterday. So I’ll leave that to him.”
The Giants gamers are off on each Monday and Tuesday. Thibodeaux can have an opportunity to reply on Wednesday within the post-practice locker room – if he doesn’t say one thing on social media first.
MCKINNEY TIRED BUT ENCOURAGED
Free security Xavier McKinney joked that he was “tired as hell” after Sunday’s seven-tackle return from a seven-game absence because of a damaged left hand.
“Hell yeah, I’m tired,” the third-year security mentioned with a smile. “We had one drive in there, that sh-t was like 12 plays. I’m like goddamn, I have to get used to being out there for that long. And I’m looking to the sideline like, ‘Sh-t, I’m getting tired. But I was fine.”
That third-quarter drive was really 16 performs. McKinney was gassed as a result of he dove proper again into an enormous workload reasonably than acclimating slowly. He performed 48 snaps, or 83% of the protection’s 58 whole. And he mentioned he wouldn’t have had it some other means.
“At first they were saying a snap count, but I told them if I’m gonna play in this game, I’m gonna play. I’m not going in for any snap counts,” mentioned McKinney, who had labored again from a bye week ATV accident in Cabo. “So they respected that. They trusted me to be transparent with them and let them know how I felt throughout the game. So we saw eye to eye on that, and I was happy they trusted me to be able to do that.”
McKinney went into the X-ray room after the sport to have his hand checked out, however he mentioned it was nice and “I feel good.” The docs cleared him to follow with the first-team protection on Friday to get him able to be activated for Sunday.
McKinney did seem a bit sluggish to rise up on his remaining sort out on Colts again Zack Moss within the third quarter. And McKinney, who allowed a 49-yard completion to Parris Campbell within the first quarter, was subbed out after that 16-play Colts TD drive in a blowout.
But the precedence was to return to play and put together for the playoffs. And he did that with seven whole tackles, together with 4 solo, and a go defended in an enormous win.
“I feel good,” he mentioned.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com