Adam Gase and Sam Darnold said they were in agreement during their sideline spat in the Jets’ 42-21 loss to the Ravens on Thursday night.
“We were both in the same mind frame,” Gase said Friday after a video appeared to the show the coach and quarterback in a heated discussion. “Somebody didn’t execute their job and basically I was bitching about that. And he was doing the same thing.”
The interaction between the coach and the player took on a life of its own on Twitter, especially because of Darnold’s body language and the look on back-up quarterback David Fales’ face.
Near the end of last night’s game, Sam Darnold and Adam Gase exchanged some words on the sideline. Not sure what was said, but backup QB David Fales’ reaction says a lot. pic.twitter.com/m0cdCBOcxF
— NFL Update (@MySportsUpdate) December 13, 2019
Fales looked dumb-founded while listening in on Gase and Darnold’s conversation in the fourth quarter. He was clearly taken aback by whatever was said — or so we thought.
“David kind of always has that weird look on his face,” Darnold said of the video. “But we were not in disagreement at all.”
Because that’s quite a look Fales made, we at Jets Wire decided to investigate Darnold’s claim. It turns out that that is indeed a look Fales makes often.
From his college years at San Jose State to his days with Gase in Chicago, Miami and now New York, here are few examples of #FalesFace: