Vikings cornerback Captain Munnerlyn is one of the smallest players in the NFL.
But Saints quarterback Drew Brees was comparing him to Hulk Hogan after the game.
Munnerlyn caught the Saints’ attention by suplexing Brees at the end of a sack in the third quarter, and perhaps unnecessarily firing up the quarterback.
“It created some fire, some momentum,” Brees said, via Evan Woodberry of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. “Obviously I wasn’t too happy about getting suplexed. The guys up front, they don’t like seeing that either.”
The guys who look more like wrestlers noticed, for sure.
“If you want to fire this team up, that’s the guy to go after,” tackle Zach Strief said. “We’re going to defend him.”
The penalty was a killer for the Vikings, because it woke the Saints offense after two sluggish quarters and led to the game-clinching touchdown.
“I talked to [Brees] after the play,” Munnerlyn said. “I told him the play wasn’t what you think it was. I mean, I told him, ‘One guy threw you down and then I piled on top of you and that’s what happened.’ I told him, ‘I inadvertently hit your head and hit your back.’ I mean, he got the call. At the end of the day, we’ve got to learn from this and just stop making mistakes.”
Munnerlyn’s a fiery player who is well known to Brees from his days with the Panthers, but he won’t win the belt making plays like that often.
