{"id":42887,"date":"2025-08-03T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42887\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T19:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:43:07","slug":"deebo-samuel-had-the-most-awkward-end-to-live-interview-on-nfl-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/42887\/","title":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel Had the Most Awkward End to Live Interview on NFL Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_o3w7a65bg\">Deebo Samuel is preparing for his first season with the Washington Commanders and hopefully <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/deebo-samuel-commanders-confident-statement-lackluster-2024-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">things go smoother for him on the field<\/a> than things went for him during a live interview on NFL Network on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0x62r5fgx\">The wide receiver took a few minutes to talk about training camp and the upcoming season and then at the end of the discussion things took an awkward turn with NFL Network&#8217;s Mike Garafolo revealing a possible injury while trying to say goodbye. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_l2mkclyjf\">&#8220;Usually I give a guy a handshake when a guy leaves but I tried to shake your hand on the way in and you said \u2018no, no, no, no I jammed my finger today. I jammed my finger.\u2019 Was I not supposed to say that? Alright, edit that part out. Strike that. That didn\u2019t happen. I\u2019ll give him a left-handed fist bump?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mkihbapdc\">\u00a0Samuel didn&#8217;t seem to love that: <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Very awkward interaction between Deebo Samuel and NFL Network at the end of their interview after Saturday\u2019s practice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPFinlayNBCS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@JPFinlayNBCS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nflnetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@nflnetwork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jscEY3aP0E\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/jscEY3aP0E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steronimo Gilton (@viceroy_14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/viceroy_14\/status\/1951656110059831625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ia667l5cw\">Yeah, that didn&#8217;t look like a good time for anyone involved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_fteweptzc\">Samuel is hoping to have a bounce-back year for a Commanders team that played in the NFC championship game last season. Hopefully his finger won&#8217;t get slow him down at all. <\/p>\n<p>More NFL on Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deebo Samuel is preparing for his first season with the Washington Commanders and hopefully things go smoother for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-42887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}