C.J. Gardner-Johnson, New Orleans Saints. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
New Orleans Saints safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson is the kind of player you love to have on your team but hate to play against.
He’s developed a reputation in the league as one of the Saints’ loudest and most provocative trash talkers, but he’ll have to hold himself back this season. With the NFL cracking down on “taunting” in 2021, Gardner-Johnson had some red-hot words to say about the stricter rules put into place.
He recently told Katherine Terrell of The Athletic:
“To be real, the rule is bulls—t.