Sir Purr
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Tough night for McCoy against his former team
Ahead of the Week 2 matchup, defensive lineman Gerald McCoy said he knew how the Buccaneers were going to block him.
Maybe he was alluding to some after-the-whistle stuff from Tampa Bay center Ryan Jensen. Maybe he wasn’t. Either way, Jensen pushed McCoy’s buttons and drew a personal foul penalty at a critical moment in the game.
“I don’t think they were trying to get under my skin, that’s just the type of guy he is,” McCoy said. “When I was there, I seen it. But you know, we expected it. The refs got to get a handle on that. They’ve got to get control of it, or that stuff happens. It’s always the second man. But when you let a person push you repeatedly before you react, at some point the refs got to step in, because he wasn’t just doing it to me. He was doing it repeatedly to everybody and the refs wasn’t saying nothing, so that’s going to happen if the refs don’t step in. That’s going to continue to happen across the league, not just here.”
It was midway through the third quarter when McCoy and Jensen were tangled up after an incomplete pass. McCoy was hit with an unnecessary roughness penalty, advancing the ball to the Carolina 39-yard line. Four plays later, the Bucs were in the end zone to take a 17-12 lead.
“I’ll apologize to my team, but apologize to them? No way, not doing it,” McCoy said. “I hurt my team, but I’m not going to let a person just keep doing this over and over.”
As for the whole “revenge game” storyline, McCoy, who finished with four tackles (1 TFL and QB hit), here’s what the former Bucs captain had to say about facing Tampa Bay:
“After a while it was just a game,” McCoy said. “You do your best not to let the emotions get the best of you. After the beginning it was just football.”