{"id":18759,"date":"2023-09-04T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/?p=18759"},"modified":"2023-09-04T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T13:44:11","slug":"randall-cobb-fined-for-hit-on-giants-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/news\/randall-cobb-fined-for-hit-on-giants-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Randall Cobb Fined for Hit on Giants Player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#e9e9e9\">\n<li>Randall Cobb was fined for a hit on Bobby McCain, causing a concussion.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jihad Ward and Aaron Rodgers had a verbal exchange during the game, featured on &#8220;Hard Knocks.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Jets and Giants will play against each other in the regular season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Randall Cobb<\/strong>, a New York Jets wide receiver, has been<strong> fined $13,889 by the NFL<\/strong> for a blindsiding hit on New York Giants safety Bobby McCain during their final preseason game. This hit led to McCain suffering a concussion, and it was flagged for unnecessary roughness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jihad Ward&#8217;s Reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giants linebacker Jihad Ward was visibly upset by the hit and held a grudge against the Jets for the remainder of the game. He attempted to provoke Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, which resulted in a war of words between the two players, caught on camera during the show &#8220;Hard Knocks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Aaron Rodgers still has some fire left \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@AaronRodgers12<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HardKnocks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#HardKnocks<\/a> now streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StreamOnMax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@StreamOnMax<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bXwR0U6gyI\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/bXwR0U6gyI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1696713851113447751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disagreements and Portrayals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ward expressed his displeasure with how he was portrayed on &#8220;Hard Knocks,&#8221; feeling that the show focused too much on Rodgers. He believed the Jets players laughed about the hit and felt misrepresented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>They sign him, it is what it is. They\u2019re going to show his part and make me look like a sucker. But I ain\u2019t going for that.<\/p>\n<cite>Ward\u00a0<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Upcoming Matchup<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the verbal exchange, the Jets and Giants are scheduled to face each other in the regular season on October 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randall Cobb, a New York Jets wide receiver, has been fined $13,889 by the NFL for a blindsiding hit on New York Giants safety Bobby McCain during their final preseason game. This hit led to McCain suffering a concussion, and it was flagged for unnecessary roughness. Jihad Ward&#8217;s Reaction Giants linebacker Jihad Ward was visibly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18762,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18759\/revisions\/18762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footyvar.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}