Giants star calls out NFL over apparent double standard on violent gesture penalties: ‘Cool when they do it’

The NFL is cracking down connected convulsive gestures this season, but it appears the league’s officials person missed a few. 

New York Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton was the latest NFL subordinate to gully a costly punishment during Sunday’s 29-20 triumph implicit the Seattle Seahawks erstwhile helium utilized his fingers to motion a archetypal down aft hauling successful a monolithic 41-yard catch. 

Darius Slayton, #86 of the New York Giants, catches a touchdown against the Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Oct. 6, 2024 successful Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Almost instantly aft gesturing toward downfield, Slayton was deed with a 15-yard punishment for unsportsmanlike conduct. 

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However, Slayton was not the lone subordinate to observe a archetypal down with pointed fingers. 

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster each celebrated archetypal downs this past week with the aforesaid motion Slayton utilized that drew a costly penalty. 

Patrick Mahomes, #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs, yells earlier kickoff against the New Orleans Saints during an NFL shot crippled astatine GEHA Field astatine Arrowhead Stadium connected Oct. 7, 2024 successful Kansas City, Missouri. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

In effect to a station connected X calling retired the treble standard, Slayton responded "It’s chill erstwhile they bash it." 

Lamb, Mahomes and Smith-Schuster did not gully penalties connected those plays, but they could inactive look fines from the league. 

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New York Jets wide receiver Allen Lazard precocious received a $14,000 punishment for celebrating a archetypal down with pointed fingers, which besides drew a costly 15-yard penalty. 

"It’s precise unfortunate that I’m the unfortunate of this situation, but it is what it is. It’s a portion of the NFL, and it's a portion of the amusement factor."

He continued, "It's thing precise silly."

Lamb was fined likewise for making a convulsive gesture, but during his Week 4 matchup against the Giants. 

CeeDee Lamb, #88 of the Dallas Cowboys, successful enactment against the New York Giants astatine MetLife Stadium connected Sept. 26, 2024 successful East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)

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The NFL does person a argumentation against "violent gestures." It falls nether unsportsmanlike behaviour and is described arsenic "any convulsive gesture, oregon an enactment that is sexually suggestive oregon offensive."

If called connected the field, it results successful a 15-yard punishment and an automatic archetypal down if committed by a antiaircraft player. 

Travis Kelce recently lamented the NFL’s crackdown, saying that fining players aft the crippled is 1 thing, but calling a punishment is "too much." 

"If you privation to good the feline aft the crippled for doing it, whatever. That’s up to the NFL for wanting to support their league, but I deliberation it’s perfectly ridiculous that a feline is connected the crushed shooting pointing fingers for getting a archetypal down saying, ‘We’re going that way’ oregon immoderate helium mightiness beryllium doing – I conscionable deliberation it’s excessively much, man. It’s excessively much, and it's affecting the crippled successful the incorrect way."

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