{"id":6341,"date":"2013-10-28T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2013-10-28T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T22:49:22","slug":"raiders-to-handle-dcs-hand-gestures-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/28\/raiders-to-handle-dcs-hand-gestures-in-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders to handle DC&#8217;s hand gestures in-house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6323\" alt=\"tarver\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarver.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarver.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarver-300x153.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarver-50x25.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis says the team plans to handle defensive coordinator Jason Tarver&#8217;s hand gestures in-house.<\/p>\n<p>Tarver was seen flipping his middle finger to NFL officials multiple times in the Raiders 21-18 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6342\" alt=\"tarvergif\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarvergif.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarvergif.gif 480w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarvergif-300x168.gif 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/tarvergif-50x28.gif 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just an emotional outburst by a coach in the heat of the game,&#8221; Davis told ESPN.com. &#8220;We don&#8217;t condone those actions and we&#8217;ll handle it in-house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tarver has also released a statement about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I apologize for my action on the sideline of yesterday&#8217;s game,&#8221; Tarver said in the release. &#8220;It was in the heat of the moment, and I regret drawing attention away from the Raiders players and what they accomplished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tarver was upset about a helmet-to-helmet flag that was thrown after Raiders cornerback Mike Jenkins made contact with Steelers running back LeVeon Bell on an incomplete pass in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The flag was picked up after officials talked it over.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010,\u00a0Tennessee Titans\u00a0defensive coordinator Chuck Cecil was hit with a $40,000 fine for flipping off the refs when he disagreed with a penalty against his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis says the team plans to handle defensive coordinator Jason Tarver&#8217;s hand gestures in-house. Tarver was seen flipping his middle finger to NFL officials multiple times in the Raiders 21-18 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. &#8220;It was just an emotional outburst by a coach in the heat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}