CJ Gardner-Johnson Took a Cheap Shot and Punched Leonard Fournette in the Back
With the New Orleans Saints beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers twice during the regular season, it didn't take long for things to get chippy on the field during the divisional round. However, things seemed to escalate near the end of the first half. Tom Brady went after a Saints defender. And then there was CJ Gardner-Johnson.
C. J. Gardner-Johnson going for the strip. #Saints #Bucs pic.twitter.com/dRX244ZU5F
— Justin Groc (@jgroc) January 18, 2021
He will likely saying he was trying to punch the ball out, but that was a straight up punch to Fournette's body in a crowd. As Dustin Colquitt points out, it looked like a straight kidney shot.
Is that a kidney shot....no place for that in the game pic.twitter.com/rH1eehKoni
— Dustin Colquitt (@dustincolquitt2) January 18, 2021
Gardner-Johnson has been fined multiple times this season, including just this week after he baited the Bears Anthony Miller into throwing a punch during their Wild Card game. So, this is apparently his thing. He also went after Mike Evans.
Mike Evans and Marshon Lattimore exchange some words. C.J. Gardner-Johnson — the king of getting others ejected — also came in to talk trash.
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) January 18, 2021
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Gardner-Johnson should be expecting another call from the league this week.