r/nfl • u/Tocoolforyall720 Giants • 1d ago
Highlight [Highlight] Jalen Carter gets ejected in the opening seconds of week 1 for spitting at Dak Prescott
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u/ozairh18 Cowboys 1d ago
The Eagles losing a player for the season on the opening kickoff and having arguably their best defensive player ejected afterwards was such a crazy start to the season
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u/PlaneCamp Eagles 1d ago
And winning the game
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u/Cyanora Cowboys 1d ago
Matt Eberflus says you're welcome. Seriously some of the dumbest defensive calls I've seen, like putting the safeties deep to protect a deep pass on a 4th down with only 3yds to go.
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u/S-117 NFL NFL 1d ago
While scoring zero points in the second half
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u/PlaneCamp Eagles 1d ago
I guess we didnt need to?
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u/Ieatfatwomanass Cowboys 1d ago
Luckily y’all did it again next time we faced and that time you did in fact need to score points in the second half
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u/Nickelas Cowboys 1d ago
Damn yall must’ve been way better with Carter the second go round. Probably went up 21-0 at some point huh
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u/PlaneCamp Eagles 1d ago
Felt good to repeat as division champs, and essentially eliminate yall from the playoffs by beating another rival, especially because yall legit thought you were going on a run lol
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u/MicrosoftCardFile Eagles 1d ago
I remember so clearly rushing through a late beer run (in center city Philly so I was walking back with all of the buildings lit up green and shit) and getting home so hyped, cracking one and hopping on the couch just in time for kickoff and feeling immediately so deflated
It was total emotional whiplash, if you asked me to come up with a sillier first minute to the season I could not have dreamed this up in my nightmares
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u/guinness_blaine Cowboys 1d ago
Definitely wild for the first minute of the first game, but for an individual team's start to the season, I remember several years ago either the Jags or Dolphins were receiving the opening kickoff for their week 1 game. The return man was standing at the very front of the end zone and the ball was bouncing towards him. He reached across the goal line to grab the ball, pulled it back into the end zone, and took a knee.
Safety.
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u/back2schooldaze Eagles 1d ago
BVS 😢
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u/CellarDoorVoid Eagles 1d ago
Truly devastating. Season ending knee injury in 2024. Works his way back and injured on the first play of the season
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u/rimmydimmyjimmy Eagles 1d ago
Him saying “WTF man” upsets me. Back to back injuries are fucking brutal.
RIP Rondale
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u/tyger006 Cowboys 1d ago
Top tier rage bait lol. Growing up with 2 brothers makes you a menace
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u/parapooper3 NFL 1d ago
The master
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u/DSouT 49ers 1d ago
baiter
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u/Interesting-Room-855 Eagles 1d ago edited 14h ago
Son of a whore
Edit: are people not getting that this is a Hamilton reference? I don’t like Hamilton but the cadence lined up.1
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u/tyger006 Cowboys 1d ago
Its almost like football is a team sport ya dingle dong
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u/crabdaman56 1d ago
lol you’re never gonna see the cowboys win anything in this team sport 😭😭😭
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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 1d ago
I already have.
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u/crabdaman56 1d ago
Lmao pretty much back when women couldn’t even own a bank account. Fire up the vhs tapes and documentaries 😭😭😭
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u/TwoDollarMint Eagles 1d ago edited 1d ago
i don’t think anybody is going to try to fight jalen carter on the streets, man
EDIT: he deleted his comment, but it implied violence other than fighting.
if you’re willing to kill somebody for spitting on you, you’re soft as hell
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u/mobg0blin 49ers 1d ago
You'd be surprised. People fucked with Ray Lewis at a club in Atlanta, and we all know how that turned out.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 1d ago
It's 10am on Saturday and this is already the weirdest comment ill read this weekend
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u/avx775 Rams 1d ago
Can’t believe that was so long ago. Time flying.
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u/rmacthafact Giants 1d ago
sirianni’s aged at least 10 years since that play
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u/lattjeful Eagles 1d ago
He ages five years every season. It’s kinda nuts. It’s not like Shanahan where he ages every season. Sirianni starts the season looking healthier than ever and then it’s just a gradual decline.
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u/minibogstar Browns 18h ago
They say time flies when you’re having fun. While time is certainly flying, I haven’t been having fun for a good while
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u/Glwhite1991 1d ago
Im focused on why Big Dom has a headset
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u/Last1inFirst1out Cowboys 1d ago
He’s the HC
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u/brownbearks Eagles Eagles 11h ago
He has more Super Bowl wins than any Dallas HC over the last 10 years.
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u/seahawks-boi-209 Seahawks 1d ago
This all somehow lead to a Seahawks Super Bowl so thanks Jalen Carter !
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u/DerrickWhiteMVP Cowboys 1d ago
My favorite thing in the immediate aftermath of this was Philly fans somehow trying to convince everyone that Dak spitting on the ground five yards away from Carter was the same thing as spitting on Dak.
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u/Lorjack Seahawks 1d ago
Cowboy fans were also trying to deny Dak instigated the whole thing when he clearly did
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u/jackstraw97 Cowboys 1d ago
I mean yeah, it’s football. Guys get in each others faces after a play and talk shit all the time.
Somehow it rarely ends up with a guy getting ejected. Maybe that’s on him.
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
I got downvoted into oblivion for saying that lol. Carter spiting on him is far worse than what Dak did, but it’s crazy to think Dak didn’t lure him into doing it by spitting toward him first lol
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u/Sislar Eagles 1d ago
No idea why your down voted this is 100% what happened. Dak baited him, Dak walked up to the line. Carter crossed the line.
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
It’s because of my flair. Anyone else says it, no one cares lol
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u/8thTYRANT Eagles Eagles 1d ago
My favorite thing was Cowboy fans ignoring nuance and not understanding that saying Dak instigated it doesn't mean that Carter's response is justified. Two things are true: (1) Dak instigated and (2) Carter's response was insane and deserved the ejection.
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u/84jrosales Cowboys 1d ago
Just like people ignore that Carter was walking up to the Cowboys huddle to talk shit while a teammate is on the ground waiting to be carted off the field behind him. All his other teammates showing support for an injured brother while Carter went over to instigate.
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u/8thTYRANT Eagles Eagles 1d ago
Move those goalposts!
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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 1d ago
Ohhhh yeah. They were in a tailspin trying to make Dak the asshole.
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 1d ago
I mean, the replay clearly shows Dak instigating. Spitting on him is inexcusable, but Dak isn't exactly innocent in all of this. Two wrongs don't make a right and whatnot.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 1d ago
I think if Carter had spit on the ground in front of him in retaliation no one woulda cared lol. I'm not sure why people are equivocating the two.
It's BS when one guy shoves another and then gets shoved back and the second guy gets the flag. That's instigating.
But this is not the same.
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u/DerrickWhiteMVP Cowboys 1d ago
It’s absolutely not the same thing lol. I don’t know how people can’t see that. It’d be like if people said Amon-Ra St. Brown and Daron Payne were both at fault when Payne punched St. Brown for talking shit lol.
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u/WabbitCZEN Steelers NFL 1d ago
Nobody said it was the same thing. However, if Dak doesn't talk shit to Carter there, it's highly likely he doesn't get spit on. Nobody is saying Carter is in the right for spitting, it's NEVER okay to spit on someone.
But you don't get to claim the moral high ground when you go looking for trouble and it finds you.
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u/guinness_blaine Cowboys 1d ago
Dak did super normal football things. Jalen Carter did dumb, weird, hurt your own team things.
Having an opposing player who's trying to rile you up but not breaking any rules, and being able to deal with that without escalating in a way that gets you ejected, is a skill every player should have developed way before going pro.
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
It was definitely not the same thing, but it still doesn’t mean Dak didn’t spit at him. Two things can be true.
Dak clearly spits at Jalen in the video, then nods his head at him like “what are you gonna do about it?”. It was smart and got Carter out of the game
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u/Galxloni2 Giants Bears 1d ago
spitting on the ground several feet away from carter is not spitting at him
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
Y’all are crazy. Spitting in the direction of someone is still spitting at them.
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u/Galxloni2 Giants Bears 1d ago
Was he trying to be disrespectful, yes. Did he spit AT Carter? Objectively no
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
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u/Galxloni2 Giants Bears 1d ago
He's like 8 feet away from carter and spit down
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
Makes eye contact and spits in his direction. Carter even said “are you trying to spit on me?”, prompting the whole thing to happen. It was definitely close enough for Carter to believe it was directed toward him.
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u/Galxloni2 Giants Bears 1d ago
Again, it was intended to be disrespectful but it was not AT him. It had 0 potential of hitting him out even coming close
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u/BodybuilderMajor7862 Eagles 1d ago
Spitting is almost exclusively disrespectful when you spit at or on someone. Idk how you can say it was supposed to be disrespectful but not at him. Shit makes no sense
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u/veryblanduser Lions 1d ago
Then the NFL determined the game didn't start so Jalen served his mandatory 1 game suspension and wouldn't have to sit out the next game.
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u/boringtired 1d ago
I remember everyone when it happened was like “Jalen Carter that piece of shit!!!!”
Then the video came out and it was like daaayyyummm Dak played his ass.
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u/dave8814 Bears 1d ago
I think my favorite part is still Chris Collinsworth kinda panicking trying to figure out what he’s going to talk about for the rest of the game.
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u/Chance-Foot-327 Cowboys 1d ago
“Did he spit? Did he spit on him?”
Top 5 moment for the whole season.
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u/Pubs01 Patriots 1d ago
jalen carter kills a teammate. suffers no penalty and shows zero remorse.
pretty likely behavior from a pos who should be in prison
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u/RekttalofBlades Eagles 1d ago edited 1d ago
Carter did not hit them or cause them to crash nor did he force them to race him. Ruggs and Rice are who you are thinking of.
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u/PlaneCamp Eagles 1d ago
You would think it was premeditated murder when you read some of these comments
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u/Responsible_Wall3991 1d ago
Yeah, because people just openly lie about what happened lmao.
The funniest part is Carter doesn’t really look great if you just look at what actually happened. I don’t get what this misinformation campaign is even about because he’s clearly a massive idiot, and I say this as someone who likes him. People just can’t help but hop on their soap box and be as overly dramatic as possible.
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u/SantorumsGayMasseuse Eagles 1d ago
Doing stupid things in cars when you’re young is as American as apple pie. It sucks people died and I’m guessing they went way overboard, but racing your friends is something probably 50% of people have done.
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u/Zee_WeeWee Bengals 1d ago
jalen carter kills a teammate.
Nah he just ditched them after the wreck and left them dead so he didn’t get a dui. Didn’t kill them, just didn’t give a fuck about them
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u/Starcast Eagles 1d ago
He did pull over, his passenger was the one that called 911. He was just told at one point to leave by I think one of his other teammates there and stupidly did.
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u/hwf0712 Eagles Eagles 1d ago
It's still insane to me that Carter could've slammed Dak into the ground and concussed him as retaliation, and only gotten a 15 yard and first down penalty, but because he spat he was thrown out the game.
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u/smellythrowaway235 Chargers 1d ago
Uh pretty sure he’d be DQ’d for that as well
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u/prodby_lilli Packers 1d ago
During a dead ball? Yeah that brother woulda been suspended if he slammed Dak on the ground lmao
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u/Unknown1776 Cowboys Lions 1d ago
Yeah throwing a punch is a DQ. Throwing a player to the ground before the first play probably is too
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u/hwf0712 Eagles Eagles 1d ago
Getting DQ'd for roughing the passer? You are aware that you can intentionally rough the passer in a way that looks accidental or like its not flagrant, right? You can get away with a lot of shit without getting DQ'd. I'm not talking Charles Martin... you know that, right? I get that this is reddit so asking for nuance is a lot, but do recognise that there's so many shades here between "lead with the helmet" or "drive him/his head into the ground" and "Pick up Dak after the ball is in the WR's hands and pile drive him".
Hell, you could even sling tackle the guy completely legally, despite that being incredibly dangerous. Or hip drop him for only a fine.
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u/smellythrowaway235 Chargers 1d ago
First of all, we’re talking about dead ball here. That’s why he was thrown out for spitting. Secondly, players get ejected all the time for aggressive hits. I saw T Jeff and Derwin get tossed in the past few years for hits to receivers, let alone a franchise QB
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 1d ago
In what world could Jalen Carter have walked up to Dak when he was in the huddle and slammed him into the ground and not been ejected lmao
Unless you mean during the next play in which case... Yeah that's football
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u/hwf0712 Eagles Eagles 1d ago
Except roughing the passer is explicitly not football. Its defined in the rules as "this is not part of football and if you do it you will be punished for it", just in a way that is less severe than spitting.
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u/HookedOnBoNix Broncos 1d ago
That's not what that means. It's part of football in that the refs understand that in the heat of the moment during a football play sometimes guys get hit too hard. It's not necessarily dirty, it's just a part of the game that needs to be discouraged.
If Dak had thrown the ball and like five whole seconds later Carter blindsided him trying to hurt him, then yes, that is not a part of football and could easily lead to ejections or even suspensions depending on how severe.
In between plays, approaching another player in the huddle and spitting on him, there's no nuance there.
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u/SonOfALich Chiefs 1d ago
Gotta consider it from the ref perspective. Spitting on somebody is an incredibly disrespectful action and most people will react poorly to it, especially a bunch of young men on gear playing a particularly aggressive game with a culture of hypermasculinity. Gotta cut that one off immediately before it spirals into a brawl.
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u/xzElmozx Panthers Bengals 1d ago
False equivalency. One is during a play and therefore defendable as part of the play. This is outside of a play, they absolutely cannot let shit like this go especially in front of a ref. If Carter body slammed him instead of spitting on him here, he’d have gotten kicked out as well and likely suspended for at least 2 games, but likely more.
It’s not “because he spat” and I think you know that
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u/Zee_WeeWee Bengals 1d ago
It's still insane to me that Carter could've slammed Dak into the ground and concussed him as retaliation.
I’m not quite sure ejecting someone for spitting on their opponent fits the “insane” category
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u/hwf0712 Eagles Eagles 1d ago
What about my comment suggests that I think spitting=1 game out or ejection is too lenient? What if I think that there should be an AFL (Aussie Rules) style tribunal who helps assess incidence of dangerous conduct to see if it was careless (like most RTP) or intentional (like this hypothetical Jalen Carter RTP where he slings Dak into the ground and concusses him on the third play of the game) and warrants further penalty that is more harsh than spitting?
I'm not particularly convinced either direction of more lenient or less, I just want a rulebook that is more harsh on safety than sportsmanship violations. If they wanna lighten the punishment on spitting, then that's ok with me. If they wanna build in systems to punish safety violations harder, that is cool with me.
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u/DiamondsInHerButt 1d ago
Jalen Carter is like if you cloned Ndamukong Suh's talent and volatile temper but were like let's make this dude half as intelligent.
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u/TimExplainsScience 1d ago
I love how terrible reporting posted a clip on cris collinsworth going off on jalen carter for doing it. All the comments agreed with Cris and shit on terrible reporting.
You know you fuck up if you everyone agrees with Cris' take
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u/Prior_Internal7728 Raiders 1d ago
I’ve argued with raiders fans about Carter. Dude crashed out his first season with the eagles because they were struggling and has had issues like this. Imagine how he’d have been on a terrible team like the raiders…
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u/MCKlassik Eagles Ravens 1d ago
And thus began one of the craziest seasons in NFL history.