Bengals defensive end Joseph Ossai lamented his penalty in the closing seconds of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game that put the Chiefs in position for Harrison Butker’s game-winning field goal.
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KANSAS CITY — In the crucible of a tie game with a Super Bowl berth at stake, we witnessed the singular moment that lifted up one man as a hero and drove another man to tears.
This AFC Championship Game game goes into the record books as a 23-20 Kansas City Chiefs victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
But it goes into our memory as that scramble in the final 17 seconds by Patrick Mahomes. And that out of bounds push of Mahomes by Bengals linebacker Joseph Ossai that added a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty.
The play defined the game. And, like it or not, the players.
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After Cincinnati’s season came to an end against the Chiefs in the AFC championship game, a close-knit group was supportive of the rookie who committed a late penalty that swung the game.
Zac Taylor made his way through the Bengals locker room, hugging each player he saw, and when he got to Joseph Ossai, he stopped. Words were both necessary and insufficient. Both men knew it. What was done was done, and what the defensive end had done was hit Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes out of bounds with the AFC championship game tied and otherwise likely headed to overtime.