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Ex-Commanders Star Slams NFL Officials For Personal Foul Call During the Chargers vs Bengals Clash

Ayush Juneja
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Los Angeles Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman (6) drives into Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins (5) as he is brought down in the first quarter of the NFL Week 11 game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium.

Things didn’t go well for the Bengals on Sunday. They came to Los Angeles with the season on the line but the Chargers blew them away in the first half itself.

To add insult to injury, some decisions didn’t go their way, particularly one involving Tee Higgins. Contact from a defender made him lose control of the football, which the officials deemed as a fumble when the Bolts recovered the ball.

However, on replay, the refs overturned the call, stating that Higgins was already down by contact when he lost control of the ball. Seemed like the right call, but many also felt that officials should have penalized Perryman for a personal foul, for hitting Tee after he was already down.

The ‘Bussin with the Boys’ crew seemingly agreed that the overturned call wasn’t the right call and that the officials should’ve handed a personal foul. However, there seems to be some disagreement within the crew as host and former Commanders’ linebacker Will Compton expressed that the play didn’t warrant a personal foul, siding with the officials’ decision.

Compton argued that those advocating for a penalty are pushing to make the game less physical, a direction he strongly opposes:

“Personal foul??? People are really trying to take all of the physicality out of this game.”

Fans echoed Compton’s sentiment, arguing that it wasn’t a personal foul since the contact occurred below the neck and Higgins wasn’t down yet.

However, many who supported the former Commanders linebacker also called him out, urging him to “look in the mirror” as his podcast’s account had posted contradicting tweets on the matter.

Another chimed in and added,

A user commented,

Another pointed out,

The Bengals managed to turn things around in the second half, leveling the game but still couldn’t get a win over the Chargers.

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Ayush Juneja

Ayush Juneja

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Ayush Juneja is an NFL sports journalist at The SportsRush. With over a year of covering the sport, he has penned more than 750 articles so far. As a sports enthusiast and true adrenaline junkie, he finds the physical side of American Football to be especially thrilling and engaging. A big San Francisco 49ers fan but when it comes to playmakers, he prefers Josh Allen over Brock Purdy. However, he would gladly place Christian McCaffrey in second, someone he supported throughout the 2023 season and who ended up winning the OPOY.

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