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John Cominsky Jersey , but he won’t be playing in the game when it kicks off in Orlando a week ahead of the Super Bowl.The Giants announced on Thursday that Olivier Vernon will be taking Mack’s place on the roster because Mack has pulled out due to injury. Mack missed two regular season games with an ankle injury, but wasn’t on the injury report as the year wound down.Vernon also missed time with an ankle injury this season, but his seven sacks in 11 games were deemed worthy of selection to the game for the first time. He added 30 tackles and a forced fumble in his third season with the Giants. He’s signed for two more years with cap hits of $19.5 million each year.The Giants will also be represented at the Pro Bowl by kicker Aldrick Rosas and running back Saquon Barkley. Safety Landon Collins was also selected, but will miss the game after having shoulder surgery. Chargers long snapper Mike Windt made a bonehead play in the first week of the preseason, which made him the subject of a Raiders film session, which meant he was the subject of ridicule on this week’s episode of . But Windt was only put in the position to make his mistake because of a mistake by the officials on the field.Windt’s mistake was walking onto the field, with the specified kicking football he was about to snap, after the Chargers had been stopped on third down — except that the officials had made a mistake of their own, ruling that Chargers quarterback Cardale Jones had fumbled
Qadree Ollison Jersey , and Cardinals linebacker Pete Robinson picked up the ball and ran it the other way for a touchdown. Windt cluelessly walked onto the field, directly into Robinson’s path, and when Windt realized what he had done he dropped the ball, so there were two footballs on the field.The officials ruled it a touchdown for the Cardinals, and also penalized Windt. The referee made this announcement: “The ruling on the field is that the quarterback fumbled the ball, it was recovered by Arizona, and returned for a touchdown. In the process of the return, unsportsmanlike conduct on Los Angeles Chargers number 47 for being on the field with the football.”Raiders coach Jon Gruden used the play in a Raiders team meeting, to uproarious laughter from the players.“Everybody stay in the game
Ed Oliver Jersey , pay attention. We can’t have this happening,” Gruden said, as shown on . “The long snapper for the Chargers, all he thought was, he thought it was gonna be fourth down, so he comes out on the field with the ball. I mean, he’s out on the field. . . . Now, if this happens to you, don’t throw the ball. These god dang long snappers.”So Windt was the subject of mockery
Cody Ford Jersey , but there was one problem: Replays showed that Jones was down before he lost the ball. On review, the play was reversed. It actually was fourth down, and Windt actually was supposed to walk onto the field with the ball. If the officials had called it correctly on the field, Windt never would have been mocked on television. (The officials still enforced the penalty on Windt, even after realizing that if they had properly called the play dead when Jones went down, Windt wouldn’t have done anything wrong.)To add insult to injury, Windt was cut by the Chargers on Tuesday, the same day he was mocked on .