Detroit Lions wide receiver Golden Tate ridiculed former Lions coach Jim Schwartz upon learning that the Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator had asked his players to carry him off the field.
"It's a terrible gesture," Tate said in a radio interview. "Just being a spectator, that's not the first time that he's done some things like that. One thing that I heard, I don't know how true it is, I heard that it was planned. Like do this if we win. That's a total douche move."
Bills players said Schwartz told them he wanted to be carried off the field after beating his former team.
Schwartz was fired after last season.
Tate said he hopes Schwartz and the Bills feel good about "the Rudy moment."
"I thought it was so disrespectful. So disrespectful. I didn't like it at all," Tate said. "If I knew I wasn't going to get fined, I would have snatched him right down off their shoulders and threw him on the ground, personally. But obviously I couldn't do that.
"But if that's what they feel was the right thing to do, then so be it. But I just thought it was a bit disrespectful to come on someone's home field because you have a past with them and kind of do that. So it is what it is and hopefully he feels better for doing it."
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Aaron Wilson covers the Ravens for The Baltimore Sun