DAVIE, Fla. — Three days after the Dolphins’ emotional 30-9 road win against the Jets, Dolphins running back Reggie Bush took some more verbal jabs at cornerback Antonio Cromartie.
Following a succession of trash talk last week, Bush gave Cromartie a vicious stiff-arm in the first quarter that set the tone for the rout. After the game, Cromartie called Bush a punk who showed “his true colors.”
“I’ve been called a lot of things, but not a punk,” Bush said with a laugh yesterday. “I don’t feel like I did anything illegal. I didn’t try to hurt him. I didn’t talk about hurting him or ending his career or anything like that. What I did was perfectly within the rules, and if he didn’t like it, it’s tough. That’s football. …. The last thing I’m going to do is cry about it and call somebody a punk.
Bush said he didn’t specifically target Cromartie for the stiff-arm.
“It just happened to be him,’’ he said. “It could have been the kicker. …He would have got it the same way. We wanted to establish an aggressive approach early on, and I felt that was a way to do it. If they don’t like me, I guess, tough.”
Bush said he didn’t specifically target Cromartie for the stiff-arm.
“It really didn’t matter who it was,” Bush said. “It just happened to be him. It could have been the kicker.