Golden Tate on Jim Schwartz carry-off request: ‘Total douche move’
When the Buffalo Bills won 17-14 on Sunday at the Detroit Lions, the defensive players carried out the offseason wish of their coordinator to carry him off the field on their shoulders.
In Week 5. In a non-conference game.
Why? Because this game meant something extra to Jim Schwartz, the Bills’ defensive coordinator who was fired from the Lions’ head coaching job after a late-season meltdown in 2013 — from 8-5 and in the NFC North driver’s seat to out of the playoffs.
So when the Bills went gonzo defensively and shut down the Lions, sacked them six times (without their best defensive lineman active) and preserved the game, there was Schwartz getting hoisted on the shoulders of the Bills’ players, for all of an angry Ford Field to witness. He told his players in the offseason that if they won the game he wanted it to happen. Bro, not sure it’s supposed to happen that way.
One Lions player — who has no connection to Schwartz and who wasn’t in Detroit last season — thought it was fairly weak sauce.
Tate, who signed with the Lions this offseason after winning a title with the Seattle Seahawks, brought his Seahawks-hewn bravado with him to Detroit. He went on to say that:”Hopefully they feel good about the Rudy moment that they had.”
That’s a former Notre Dame player throwing some Rudy sass at Schwartz. How great is that?
Also: “Total Douche Move,” we think, has the potential to be a phrase that’s built to last. Especially if you sing it a la the Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe.” You don’t know what I got …
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