CJ Gardner-Johnson has a history of bad behavior on the football field. Gardner-Johnson has been fined many times throughout his NFL career for dirty hits and chippy play that crossed the line, and he was also ejected from a game in 2024 with the Philadelphia Eagles for two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. Gardner-Johnson signed with the Buffalo Bills over the offseason, and he was booted from the team\u2019s Week 6 game against the Las Vegas Raiders after an inappropriate interaction with Brock Bowers.<\/p>\n
Gardner-Johnson and Bowers were jawing after a play, and the Bills defensive back spit at him as he headed back into the huddle. That\u2019s a big no-no in the NFL, and the refs ejected Gardner-Johnson with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.<\/p>\n
What happened to having respect for your opponents? Watch the video of Gardner-Johnson spitting on Bowers here:<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a closer look at the spitting moment:<\/p>\n
The Bills went on to beat the Raiders, 33-30, to improve to 5-1 on the year. After the game, Gardner-Johnson spoke to the media an showed remorse for spitting on Bowers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI gotta be a better player,\u201d Gardner-Johnson said. I gotta be a better vet. I let my emotions get above, and I hurt my team. I gotta do better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The refs admitted that he was ejected for spitting in the pool report after the game.<\/p>\n
Football is a violence, collision-based game, but players on both sides still need to have respect for each other. Gardner-Johnson is far from a star, but he can be a good player in his role when he has his head on straight. Hopefully this ejection teaches him a lesson, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CJ Gardner-Johnson has a history of bad behavior on the football field. Gardner-Johnson has been fined many times…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-887478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}