Some dude on twitter broke down... quick recap the Bears on offensive series BEFORE that punch (i.e. the Saints had a possession between the punch and this incident), after a play was over, Wims has a orange mouthguard hanging from his facemask and you can see him and Gardner jawing a bit. Nothing abnormal, then Garnder reaches up grabs the hanging mouthguard and rips it off his helmet and drops it on the grass, Wims is out the next offensive play just due to personnel change.
You can see the orange mouthguard on the ground by the Bears RB feet on the next play but delay of game penalty moves them back 5 yards then a Bears Olineman (with moving back 5 yards) is now next to the mouthguard and throws it a good 10 yards behind him just to get it away from his feet and the commentators even made an observation that it looked like a lineman just threw someones mouth piece. Wims has not been in the game the last 2 plays, the bears run, get stuffed and have to punt. Saint get the ball have their own drive then kick it back to the bears and the first play Wims is on the field and immediately goes after Gardner.
Gardner still must be a POS because Michael Thomas his own teammate punched him last week and now Wims this week. I don't really believe the entire spitting thing, for me that would have been an immediate reaction, not a ten min later retaliation. Gardner did definitely poke Miller in the face/mouth/eye area on a previous series (again showing he is a POS) but the whole ripping the mouthguard out before punching him is what made people believe it was mouthguard related lol I also dont know if Garnder even had a mouth piece lol Wims maybe grabbed air but he was def going for it.