The Arizona Cardinals’ 2016 season is essentially over, as last Sunday’s crushing 26-23 loss in Miami essentially knocked them out of playoff contention. The team has suffered a lot of close losses this season, and it’s clearly taken a toll on the locker room.
Head coach Bruce Arians shared some thoughts after the loss, which almost came off as sour grapes. Arians claimed the Dolphins were yelling a fake snap count on the extra point they blocked and returned for a two-point score.
Dolphins special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi has now responded to Arians’ allegations, and he even provided some humor in doing so.
“I can tell you that we didn’t do anything illegal so I’m kind of a little bit taken back by it, and quite frankly a little bit offended by it,” Rizzi said, via Chris Perkins of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “It’s really accusing us of cheating, really to be honest with you so I was a little bit offended by it.”
And then came the troll job.
“Now to be honest with you, I don’t know one of the three he was talking about because they missed three,” Rizzi said of Catanzaro, who missed a field goal, missed an extra point and had another extra point blocked and returned for two points by the Dolphins.
“So the very first one they had three guys jump offside and the play really should have got shut down by the officials. If you go back and watch the play their long snapper, left guard and left tackle all moved and they really should have shut the play down, so I don’t know if that got the rhythm a lit bit off.”
Arians probably had this coming, and he had to know that the Dolphins would respond. You can’t accuse someone of cheating and not expect them to defend themselves.
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