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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Though hobbled by a high ankle sprain, Patrick Mahomes came through for the Chiefs when they needed him, with perhaps the signature moment of Sunday’s AFC Championship Game coming on the QB’s final snap.
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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Joseph Ossai, at his lowest moment in the NFL, faced the music. But he wasn’t alone. His teammates lifted him up, saying as much about the Bengals as any victory has.
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