{"id":128421,"date":"2025-06-14T04:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/128421\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T04:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T04:44:12","slug":"kittle-defends-ex-49er-deebo-after-viral-video-receives-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/128421\/","title":{"rendered":"Kittle defends ex-49er Deebo after viral video receives backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/deebo-samuel-commanders-video-george-kittle\/1855389\/?partner=yahoo&amp;cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kittle defends ex-49er Deebo after viral video receives backlash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kittle defends ex-49er Deebo after viral video receives backlash<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com?cid=yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NBC Sports Bay Area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NBC Sports Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/K\/KittGe00.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:George Kittle;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">George Kittle<\/a> has gone from blocking defenders on the football field for former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\/deebo-samuel-trade-commanders\/1729177\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:49ers teammate Deebo Samuel;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">49ers teammate Deebo Samuel<\/a> to blocking out his haters on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>As footage of Samuel at Washington Commanders minicamp this week went viral, mostly for the wrong reasons, Kittle quickly came to the receiver\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-second clip shows Samuel running routes with his new team, which garnered plenty of criticism for the perceived lack of effort from the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>But Kittle, an eight-year vet, attributes Samuel\u2019s effort to the simple fact that it\u2019s only minicamp, and a time when coaches and teams are in the process of teaching and practicing a specific set of plays, formations or concepts.<\/p>\n<p>The social media football experts, however, weren\u2019t as understanding.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Kittle, though, who was teammates with Samuel for six NFL seasons, to have his forever brother\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>Even repping a different jersey, the red and gold loyalty runs deep for Kittle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/49ers-talk-with-matt-maiocco.simplecast.com\/episodes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Download and follow the 49ers Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kittle defends ex-49er Deebo after viral video receives backlash originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area George Kittle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1705,7,6066,6,2877,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-128421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-deebo-samuel","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-george-kittle","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-social-media","13":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114679897481578670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}