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Kyle Brandt Had Impeccable Metaphor on Sauce Gardner's Daniel Jones Brainfart

Gardner may have struggled to find the words, but Brandt didn't.

Josh Wilson

Kyle Brandt on Sauce Gardner
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Asked to say something about his opponent Daniel Jones, outspoken New York Jets defensive back Sauce Gardner looked completely lost on Wednesday.

Fans had jokes about Gardner's inability to comment on Jones, presuming that he didn't want to say anything bad about the much-maligned Giants quarterback, but didn't exactly have anything authentically complimentary to say either.

The next day on Good Morning Football, NFL Network's Kyle Brandt had just the right words to say:

"The fight that is going on inside Sauce's head is so prolific, I would pay anything for it. I would pay the pay-per-view. It is Micky Ward/Arturo Gatti exchanging blows in the middle of the ring! It is Little Mac/Bald Bull, it is Creed/Balboa, just the fight in that head. And just as you think one guy is going to win, he's got the other guy in the corner, then he comes punching back. He then settles on the, like, 'He had fun out there today.' He's just looking for any phrase to say about anything. It is so entertaining to watch. That clip alone I think is more entertaining than some of the Jets and Giants games will be this year."

"Every single human emotion is hit in about 30 seconds, Brandt said.

Gardner Tweeted afterward to clean up the situation:

"Yeah, and the hamster wheel in your head was going and going!" Brand said on the Tweet.

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Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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