Justin LaBar

Well, the tongue-in-death grip is absolutely a heel move.

Now, you're correct in the...

And the analyzing it from the visual standpoint of, yeah, it's great for TV.

You can get an up-close shot of the fingers and the pressure and Roman spitting and selling and coughing and choking.

But yeah, from a baby face standpoint on television, it's not something –

Mick Foley did the mandible claw.

It only became a baby face move when he put a sock on it.

So I was confused.

Actually, let me put it this way.

So you and I were texting Monday night, and we're texting, and I see this happen Monday.

And I'm like, all right, they're just going to have this be full-fledged, Jacob's a heel, Roman's a face.

But then I watch SmackDown, and Jacob is not acting like it.

I mean, he's still being Jacob.

He's still being the badass, but he's not being the heel.

I mean, he still has problems with Solo, and we see him chopping it up positively with Royce Keyes, and they have history.

So I am confused.

As we are a week out from Backlash, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to think.

I was very strong-willed in opinion last week.

That they should not have Jacob versus Roman at Backlash because Roman Reigns doesn't lose the world title at Backlash three weeks after he wins it at WrestleMania's main event.

And I felt Jacob Fatu is a believable challenger.