Replace: The NFL has agreed with Jalen Ramsey’s model of occasions, and suspended Ja’Marr Chase one sport for unsportsmanlike conduct. Barring a profitable attraction, Chase will miss this weekend’s sport towards the New England Patriots.
Earlier: AFC North video games are likely to get somewhat chippy.
Sunday’s contest between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers was no exception.
A protracted sequence early within the fourth quarter saved the Bengals offense on the sector, and resulted in Jalen Ramsey being ejected after punching Bengals huge receiver Ja’Marr Chase.
However the story doesn’t finish there, and now the league is about to research the incident.
The sequence started when the 2 gamers had been jawing after the whistle on a third-down play, which you’ll see right here:
Finally everybody was separated, and each Ramsey and Chase earned offsetting private foul penalties. and the Bengals offense remained on the sector for 4th-and-1. After utilizing a couple of totally different shifts and a protracted rely to try to draw the Steelers protection offsides, Joe Flacco burned a timeout.
That’s when Ramsey and Chase resumed their … pleasant dialogue.
As you’ll be able to see right here, the 2 had been jawing but once more when a Pittsburgh coach got here onto the sector to try to give Ramsey water. However as a substitute the coach had a closeup view of Ramsey throwing a punch:
Right here is one other have a look at it:
“He spit on me,” Ramsey mentioned. “I don’t give a f— about soccer after that, respectfully. I’m at all times going to be all for trash speaking, s— speaking, issues like that. I really take pleasure in that a part of the sport. I feel that individuals know that. … We had been speaking s—, which I’m cool with. After which as quickly as he spit, it was f— that. … I’m positive the NFL, they’ll do their due diligence. They’ve bought 100 cameras on the market. They will examine. They will see the whole lot. … They need to be capable to pull it up and see that he spit and it’s no matter after that, to be trustworthy. I used to be nonetheless somewhat too good if I’m retaining it trustworthy with you.”
After the sport, Ramsey addressed the incident, elevating the allegation that Chase spit on him which is what sparked the punch:
Requested in regards to the allegation, Chase denied that he spit on Ramsey:
Nonetheless, as you’ll be able to see from the “Group Observe,” video proof may undercut Chase’s denial:
Requested in regards to the incident after the sport, referee Invoice Vinovich mentioned the sport officers didn’t see Chase spit on Ramsey.
“No. Clearly, we didn’t,” he mentioned. “We didn’t see something that rose to that stage in any respect.”
Nonetheless, an NFL spokesperson confirmed to ESPN’s Adam Schefter that the league will evaluation the incident.
As Ramsey famous, they’ve loads of cameras to work with.
