I think the NFL has succeeded so much at removing the emotion of the game whether it be with limiting celebration, limiting physical play, limiting taunting etc etc that we are conditioned to react to a player talking smack about another player. This is sports. Most of us have played sports on some level and shit talking is part of the game. Whether it was Jordan, Bird, Marino, LT, or one of us on the high school grid iron or local blacktop, shit talking is part of the game.
Yes, on the one hand, you wish he would have been more classy in that moment but on the other hand .... give me the emotion .. allow it ... forgive it .... because I would rather see emotion not necessarily harnessed perfectly vs seeing a robot with pat answers to every question, or who appears to not care ... because that just doesn't do it for me.
Give me celebration, make the receiver of a taunt be the better man instead of the taunter ( make a play and then it is your turn to talk shit and taunt ), let guys talk shit and play the game. We all joke about it being the No Fun League but now we are getting conditioned to accept it and we shouldn't.
So I actually liked it.