Despite ultimately winning their Week 1 matchup against the New York Giants by a 36-31 margin, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and some of his players were still mad leaving AT&T Stadium Sunday night as they accused the Giants defense of faking injuries throughout the game to slow down their high-speed offense.
Yahoo! Sports reports that Jones was upset about one play in particular, involving Giants defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins. The Cowboys picked up a first down leading into the play in question when quarterback Tony Romo connected with tight end Jason Witten. Romo then rushed to the line to begin another play and keep the drive going rapidly in a no-huddle scheme to catch the Giants defense startled, when Jenkins suddenly went down and was shaking his arm.
This caused the officials to blow their whistles and stop the game so that the medical staff could tend to Jenkins. According to Yahoo! Sports, Witten went up to the officials and started screaming, "He's faking!" repeatedly. It also appeared that Romo was arguing the legitimacy of the injury as well. Jenkins jogged off the field a little later and returned to the game eventually, while the Cowboys' quick-paced drive was slowed down due to what the team perceives as a questionable injury.
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While it's hard to tell if Jenkins was actually in pain or faking it, there's no doubt in Jones' mind that it's the latter.
"I thought us experts on football were the only ones who could see that," Jones said when asked about the Giants faking injuries, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I didn't know everybody could. It was so obvious it was funny. It wasn't humorous because we really wanted the advantage and knew we could get it if we could get the ball snapped."
This is just the latest accusations of faking injuries in the NFL. Retired linebacker Brian Urlacher made headlines last week when he announced to the media that the Chicago Bears faked injuries to slow things down during his tenure with them.
If the Giants' (0-1) plan was to actually fake injuries to slow the Cowboys (1-0) offense down, it didn't work. The Cowboys left AT&T Stadium with a Week 1 victory heading into a clash in Kansas City with the Chiefs in Week 2 while the Giants head back to New York for a matchup between brothers as Eli Manning and Peyton Manning square off at MetLife Stadium this Sunday.
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