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Hi everybody! You may have seen this reel by Amik Robertson after the Green Bay Packers’ second easy victory of the season over the Detroit Lions.
It reminds me of something you occasionally see fans do when their team is an underdog, and leading against a favorite: Chanting “Overrated!” It’s a terrible troll in that it actually undermines your team (“the team we are beating isn’t good, actually”) and Amik is basically saying, “Look how bad I got torched by this terrible route.”
Now, he is also saying that Watson broke the rules by pushing off, but if you watch the play, if there’s a push-off at all, it’s very light, and the kind of contact that happens on almost every play. What actually happened is that Watson is super-fast and Amik Roberston, less so, and he couldn’t keep up. It’s OK, it happens to the best of them.
But no one needs to worry about any lingering feelings of animosity between Watson and Robertson. They’re all professionals out there and respect each other, and we had a very touching moment with 9:22 remaining in the game, where the two were seen holding hands, in what I can only assume is a show of good sportsmanship.
It was good to see and brought some hope to a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. It also, importantly, was not flagged.
