Apparently JuJu Smith-Schuster danced before the Buffalo Bills game at or near midfield.
Just as he does before most games.
And, apparently the Buffalo Bills used it as some sort of motivation as they ended up beating the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Excuse me while I double over in laughter. I mean, that’s pretty easy to say after the fact.
Wonder if anyone from the Bills would have had anything to say about JuJu doing a little disco had the Steelers won?
Most likely not. This is all so convenient and all so laughable.
But here we are talking about it.
Did JuJu’s dance make Josh Allen throw it harder and with a tighter spiral?
Did the JuJu jig and two-step force Sean McDermott and his staff to coach better?
Did the Bills players on defense say to themselves, “you know, I was going to give a pretty good effort until I saw JuJu cutting it up, but now I’m going to give a great effort!”
Spare me.
Please, spare me.
There were like three Bills players on the field --- special teamers who didn’t even care to know what was happening --- when JuJu did his little tango.
It is all so dumb and attention-seeking --- and not by JuJu, but those looking to grab onto him and get some clout out of it for themselves by being perpetual, eternal and ceaseless JuJu haters. Comical, really; the whole thing.
That is really what it is all about.
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I do have a couple thoughts on this, though …
If this was some gigantic motivational point for the Buffalo Bills in a key AFC clash against the Pittsburgh Steelers, why did they play (especially on offense) so crummy over the first half? I mean, if JuJu’s display of ballet was a such a big damn thing, why did the Bills look so bad for almost all of the first half?
One would think if the dance was as vast of a motivational device as some are making it out to be, that the Bills would have come out playing with a lot more fervor and not flat as a five dollar bill --- which they did.
But here is the bigger point, and the much more important point: If men who are players for the actual Pittsburgh Steelers football team had a problem with JuJu Smith-Schuster dancing before, during or after a game --- or really any of his behavior --- it would stop. Or at the very least, they would be vocal about it.
When has Cam Heyward, an unbending leader of his football team, ever been shy about saying exactly how he felt about the actions of a teammate, even if it was critical? Heyward would say something to JuJu, to the media or both if it was a problem.
Same with Ben Roethlisberger --- he’d first pull JuJu aside and then, as Ben has in the past with others, he’d be critical through the media. I’m sure you remember when he was with Antonio Brown, right?
Same with Maurkice Pouncey. Do you think if JuJu doing a little jazzstep before a game was a big deal, or really motivated another team, Pouncey would sit idly by and not step in? He absolutely would.
You know it and I know it.
So keep making something out of nothing. Because that’s all this is. It is nothing. Until any other member of the Pittsburgh Steelers has a problem with it, JuJu dancing is a whole lot of nothing.