Steve Johnson touchdown celebration worthy Patriots game turning benching during loss
Sunday, January 1st, 2012Massachusetts-the end bills wide receiver Steve Johnson November shoulders the blame for the team loss to the jets, pointing out that his punished touchdown his team place celebration cost both field and refers.
On Sunday in the Gillette Stadium proved Johnson, that he had learned his lesson yet, as he in the first quarter after another marked celebration in the endzone benched was not. Sunday’s antics were admittedly, far less controversial than the previous, but they were enough to end his season.
Johnson has a great diving catch on the right side of the end zone, the Bills give a 14-0 lead against the Patriots. He stood up and raised his Jersey to the fans show, that he “happy new year” had written to his undershirt. Johnson’s team-mate, as well as the officiating crew, were not very amused, drew a 15-yard personal foul penalty and was benched for the rest of the game by coach Chan Gailey.
“I don’t know that it is to move to a penalty”, Johnson said. “At the end of the day, what I did was what I did and I’m going to try and bring in the new year.” Finally, it hurt my team-mates, and that is the thing that hurts me the most. The fact is that it, my team hurt. The coach told me that I was the game. He said for the rest of the game, and I respect his decision.
“He has made, and that is what it is.” I can not complain about them, or whine or pout. He made his decision, and I will be with him. It really is not matter, why and how it happens. At the end of the day, what I did hurt my teammates and I have to take that and I will. “
Earlier in the season, Johnson mocked a variety of jets after scoring tomb. He has the “Dougie” (the favorite dance of the former jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards), the end ran zone with his arm extended to a flying Jet ( Santonio Holmes favorite) mock and then turned himself in the leg (a shot at Plaxico Burress) shoot.
After this incident, Gailey said his team he would every bank that drew a penalty for a celebration. He said that Johnson was marked not for a similar celebration last year Gailey said it was hard, Sunday discipline, but he wanted to keep him on his word.
Gailey was asked how long it lasted, tired of Johnson’s problems, which are immature on field.
“I got tired of that happened for the first time, but you hope that people from situations”, Gailey said. “You know who is there very little error, but you have to learn from your mistakes.” And everyone falls to me in this category. And I have this a hundred times said-[Johnson] is not a bad guy. He is not. “He’s a good guy, but he used some bad judgment at the time, and if you don’t, that enough and it hurts the team, you have to do something.”
The additional field position help not the Patriots who punted on their next possession. But Johnson’s benching crushed the Bills offense, builds a 21-0 lead, but never again reached the scoring with his third possession. You were hit by a bunch of drops, and quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick was a less players with Johnson on the sidelines.
It could also be a taunting end Johnson’s four-year term of Office in Buffalo. He is an unrestricted free agent, which will have an interesting market during the low season. Johnson has tons of talent, which was used on the display when he got the best cornerback Kilning table of Revis jets in the aforementioned game, but Johnson’s mental error have soiled its reputation.
At the very least will it help not his shares, the spent it the last three quarters of the season on the bench.
“I did something that hurt my teammates,” said Johnson. “I know the guys to get me in a lot of work here and to 21 points rise on the New England Patriots.” During the whole season, we see all the work, the in, gets from the first season here and the guys who were here, they grind. The season as follows end, damaging it. And with this we are not an incident, say it was the conclusion for the whole season, it was something [Sunday], I think that I have made mistakes, for my team-mates.