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 enchantment, Chase will miss this weekend’s sport in opposition to the New England Patriots.
Earlier: AFC North video games are likely to get a bit of chippy.
Sunday’s contest between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Pittsburgh Steelers was no exception.
A protracted sequence early within the fourth quarter stored the Bengals offense on the sphere, and resulted in Jalen Ramsey being ejected after punching Bengals broad receiver Ja’Marr Chase.
However the story doesn’t finish there, and now the league is ready to research the incident.
The sequence started when the 2 gamers have been jawing after the whistle on a third-down play, which you’ll see right here:
Ultimately everybody was separated, and each Ramsey and Chase earned offsetting private foul penalties. and the Bengals offense remained on the sphere for 4th-and-1. After utilizing just a few completely 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 may see right here, the 2 have been jawing but once more when a Pittsburgh coach got here onto the sphere to try to give Ramsey water. However as an alternative 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 have 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 every part. … They need to have the ability to pull it up and see that he spit and it’s no matter after that, to be trustworthy. I used to be nonetheless a bit of too good if I’m preserving 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 may see from the “Neighborhood Word,” video proof would possibly 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.