Miami Dolphins Pro Bowl cornerback Xavien Howard has been flagged four times in the first two games, so Fan Nation Publisher Alain Poupart and Columnist Omar Kelly discuss the problem
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00:00 he talked about his cornerbacks and being very handsy and no they are and he didn't he didn't
00:09 certainly didn't poop with the fact that Xavier Howard in fact somebody mentioned like he's got
00:12 three holding penalties and and Fangio was like no he's got four. It's actually it's four defensive
00:18 penalties in the first two games and not a math major but that sounds like two a game projected
00:23 over 17 games that's 34 penalties no that's no bueno um gotta get that cleaned up and his comment
00:32 was I gotta be able to cover people without fouling to use a basketball term and I go back
00:37 to him grabbing the jersey of Mike Gacicchia as he's running across the field and thinking to
00:41 myself well you can't you can't hang with him with your speed I mean what's that about um I think he
00:47 was trying to disrupt that I'm speaking for him now I think he was trying to disrupt the timing
00:52 of the route it might have been a timing route and I it's it's not excusable and I agree with you why
00:59 because remember they they got to release him because that's not they don't play man so he's
01:04 not trailing with the guy he's just covering an area and so maybe he was he knew something else
01:11 was going on and he he had to throw off the timing of the route but you know corn I say this all the
01:18 time it's like offensive linemen there's holding just about on every single play whether the refs
01:25 call it or have the discretion to okay and I'm not making an excuse for Xavier we all know who
01:30 Xavier is Xavier is about getting you the ball that's that's what he does everything else is
01:38 per is everything else about his job it's you know kind of important but he's gonna get you the ball
01:46 and sometimes you got to tolerate some of the you know I believe he was he committed
01:50 pass interference on on the interception but it wasn't called oh yeah really at the top of the
01:58 route he was pushing but anyway I'm like no I didn't see that and again it goes to if you don't
02:06 get called it's a great play and if you get called it's a penalty so uh this is why like I I caution
02:11 against fans because generally speaking they see one oh it's a horrible call it's a horrible call
02:15 it's a it's a pure judgment call the dolphins are going to get their share where they should
02:20 have been flagged and they won't or they shouldn't have been flagged and they will and that applies
02:25 to every single solitary team in the NFL and yeah there were a couple in the end zone I think it was
02:30 against the chargers that were yeah but the bottom line is you give the officials enough of a reason
02:38 to throw a flag then it's on you even though you can see the same play not get called