Make New York Post a Preferred Source Jameis Winston’s bizarre hard count on a fourth-and-1 Thursday night turned into social media fuel for the Commanders just over an hour later.
With around 3:30 remaining in regulation, the Giants up by four and Winston in for the quarterback sneak from their own 11-yard line, the backup quarterback unveiled an unusual cadence — referencing a 2000 song from Baha Men — while trying to draw Washington offside.
“Ready, get set, hut one, hut two, hut three,” Winston said. “Who let the dogs out? Who, who, who?”
New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston (19) works at the line of scrimmage against the Washington Commanders on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, in East Rutherford, N.J. Getty Images Then, after the Commanders’ 24-21 win over the Giants, they took a jab at Winston and the Giants.
“WHO LET THE DOGS OUT,” Washington wrote in an X post that included a series of pictures from players in the locker room.
When the Commanders didn’t jump offside, the Giants took a delay of game penalty, made it a fourth-and-5 and punted possession to the Commanders.
“You gotta be kidding,” Prime Video play-by-play broadcaster Al Michaels said on the “Thursday Night Football” broadcast.
“What is he doing?” analyst Kirk Herbstreit said while laughing.
Big Blue ultimately got the ball back four plays later when Ar’Darius Washington intercepted Jayden Daniels, but Winston’s unserious cadence aged poorly when the Giants blew their late lead and failed to take the season series from their NFC East rival.
Winston, who mistakenly credited the Baha Men’s hit to the Black Eyed Peas postgame, didn’t offer much reasoning behind the hard count outside of calling it a “good song, back in the early 2000s” and telling reporters “it just had a nice ring to it.”
New York Giants quarterback Jameis Winston reacts after getting a first down during a game against the Washington Commanders, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026. Charles Wenzelberg/NY Post “Teams do jump in that situation sometimes,” head coach John Harbaugh said, while saying it was part of the cadence for the play. “So that was the idea.”
Winston rushed two times for one yard during the Giants’ loss, with the 32-year-old now settled into the role as J.J. McCarthy’s backup — and the option for quarterback sneaks in short-yardage situations — after initially getting the first chance at replacing Jaxson Dart as Big Blue’s quarterback.
When the Commanders took a three-point lead with less than a minute remaining, the Giants started to drive down the field before McCarthy attempted two deep passes — and the second one, intended for Malik Nabers, was intercepted to seal the loss.
Big Blue will host the Jaguars in Week 11 before facing the Colts, 49ers and Seahawks after that.
