Sauce Gardner posts new video of incident with Mac Jones after NFL launches investigation
Jets cornerback Sauce Gardner is trying to help his cause following an on-field scuffle that occurred against the Patriots on Sunday. The star defensive back posted a video that he hopes proves his point that New England’s Mac Jones hit him below the belt, prompting Gardner to shove the quarterback.
The problem? The video doesn’t really show all that much. Jones definitely walks near Gardner after a shoving match broke out between the two teams, but anything else is inconclusive.
After Sunday’s game, Gardner defended his actions.
“He reached out to me to get me to help him up,” Gardner said. “I just moved his hand out of the way. He got up and then came up to me like ‘Good job.’ While he was saying that, he hit me in my private parts. I didn’t react like I really wanted to. I definitely wasn’t expecting that. First time for everything I guess. . . . He’s trying to prevent me from having kids in the future.”
The NFL has launched an investigation into the matter and plans to look at the situation more in-depth on Monday. If the video Gardner shared is the only evidence for the league, he may not make a very strong case.
New England defeated New York 15-10 on Sunday.
Mac Jones responds to Sauce Gardner’s accusations
After Sunday’s game, Jones was asked to respond to Gardner’s accusations about the quarterback playing dirty. He denied doing anything that prompted the shove.
“No,” Jones said. “I think just trying to get the first down, third and one, and then we came back on fourth and one, and then tried to fake it. So definitely a physical play, a lot of guys were in there.”
Jones put more emphasis on the actual play — a quarterback sneak in an attempt to gain one yard. He says that things just got physical in that situation.
“It’s kind of the famous quarterback sneak that everybody does, there’s all the guys on both teams are in there so it can get pretty physical,” Jones said. “And that’s something that I have to learn from is getting my pads a little bit lower so that I can get it and not get held up.”
We’ll see if the NFL discovers anything that would warrant punishment for Jones. But based on the video that Gardner shared on social media, it’s pretty difficult to tell whether anything happened.