Chris Christie would have cuffed Laremy Tunsil for video

The Laremy Tunsil gas mask video took the NFL Draft by storm on Thursday night, so much that New Jersey governor Chris Christie “would have cuffed him.”

The Laremy Tunsil gas mask video was certainly an embarrassing part of the 2016 NFL Draft on Thursday night. Tunsil had his Twitter account hacked merely minutes before the first round began at 8 p.m. ET. His infamous Instagram video cost Tunsil roughly $7 million as he fell from presumably No. 6 to the Baltimore Ravens to the No. 13 overall pick with the Miami Dolphins.

Outspoken New Jersey Republican governor Chris Christie apparently saw Tunsil’s leaked video like the rest of us and gave a really ‘this doesn’t help anyone’ type of quote on the incident. Christie was quoted saying “I would have gone in and cuffed this guy.”

Yes, Tunsil used poor judgement in taking a massive hit

literally

with that gas mask, but he did come clean about the incident that took place over two years ago and that was enough of Tunsil being forthright with the Dolphins to take him at No. 13 in the 2016 NFL Draft.

How does a former Ole Miss Rebels offensive tackle that was taken off both the Baltimore Ravens and the Tennessee Titans draft board before landing in Miami have any connection to the two NFL teams that play in Christie’s state of New Jersey in the New York Giants and the New York Jets?

Perhaps what he is arguing is that if the NFL Draft were being held in New York City like it usually is that Christie would feel compelled to handcuff a new millionaire for smoking marijuana throw a gas mask over two years in a state that he has absolutely no jurisdiction. Christie’s comment served absolutely no purpose in this draft day situation.

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