Starting to become par for the course.
I’m not one to blame the referees when the Cincinnati Bengals clearly came out on Monday Night Football when they weren’t ready to play, but there was yet another blown Defensive Pass Interference call that hurt Joe Burrow and the offense in a key moment.
In the fourth quarter, just after Ja’Marr Chase scored his second touchdown of the game, Zac Taylor made the call to go for two in hopes to pull within a field goal of the Commanders.
Burrow scrambled out right and found Tee Higgins in the back of the end zone. Before the ball could find its way into Higgins’ hands, though, a defensive back pulled his hands away in what should have been a clear-cut DPI call.
You be the judge.
BREAKING: THE #BENGALS GET SCREWED AGAIN… THIS WAS A CLEAR DEFENSIVE PASS INTERFERENCE.
Cincinnati gets screwed out of making this just a field goal away score…
BACK TO BACK NIGHTS. THE REFS & PI.
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— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) September 24, 2024
What makes this even more painful is how the Bengals fell to the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 2 thanks to a DPI on Daijahn Anthony that was less egregious than this.
Still, this is no excuse for what happened Monday night. That was one of the worst losses of the Zac Taylor era, as it put what once appeared to be a promising season now on the brink before September ends.
