4 days after tempers flared between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens, WR George Pickens and Cleveland Browns S Grant Delpit blended it up Thursday evening.
Mid-way via the fourth quarter of the sport, Delpit was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, snatching and taking away Pickens’ mouth guard that dangled beneath his helmet. Within the second, it appeared like an uncalled for motion by Delpit. However he took to social media to trace at why he did it, displaying a clip of Pickens sticking his leg out and making an attempt to journey Delpit moments earlier than.
Noah Schaefer despatched out a tweet of Delpit’s supposed Instagram story displaying the All-22 aerial view of what occurred after the play, an unsuccessful windback run by RB Cordarrelle Patterson.
The video doesn’t seem to nonetheless be on Delpit’s Instagram web page however we are able to pull up the identical All-22 clip for ourselves. Proper earlier than the footage cuts away, you may see Pickens stroll up behind Delpit and Patterson, the previous jawing a bit after shedding Pickens’ block and making the sort out. Pickens proceeds to kick his left leg out behind Delpit who journeys and stumbles as he walks backwards, although he didn’t fall to the bottom.
We’ve slowed down the clip to make it a bit simpler to see. The 2 are standing by the sideline across the 7-8 yard-line.
Right here’s one other zoomed in look that Dave captured.
It was then that Delpit snatched Pickens’ mouth guard, drawing the penalty. Pickens was not penalized. The yardage wasn’t a lot, the ball transferring forwards 2-yards however it gave the Steelers a primary down. RB Jaylen Warren scored the following play, beginning Pittsburgh’s non permanent comeback.
It wasn’t the one mix-up between Pickens and the Browns’ secondary. On Pittsburgh’s Hail Mary that fell hopelessly incomplete, Browns CB Greg Newsome shoved Pickens via and out of the top zone. Each gamers needed to be separated as safety helped diffuse the scenario.
Within the locker room post-game, Pickens mentioned the snowy climate helped Cleveland and that the Browns aren’t a “good workforce.”
Thursday’s actions weren’t the primary time Pickens and a defensive again blended issues up. On the finish of Pittsburgh’s Week 5 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Pickens tossed down Dallas CB Jourdan Lewis after Lewis jawed him after the ultimate play. Each gamers have been fined for the incident.
Whereas the NFL launched fines immediately, these have been for the Week 11 slate of video games. The fines for Week 12 gained’t come out till subsequent Saturday. We’ll see if Pickens, Delpit, Newsome, and anybody else exhibits up on the checklist. Odds are, there might be some lighter wallets.
