Jalen Ramsey and the Tremendous Bowl officers can breathe a sigh of reduction that the Rams are champions and the specter of controversy was squashed.
Whereas so a lot of his celebrity teammates carried out up to date of Tremendous Bowl 56 in a 23-20 victory in opposition to the Bengals, Ramsey struggled to deal with receiver Ja’Marr Chase and was on the bad-luck finish of the sport’s greatest blown name.
“Our guys aren’t afraid of anyone,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor stated of difficult Ramsey when the remainder of the Rams’ secondary is a weak spot. “We’ve obtained great gamers on our group they usually obtained uninterested in the narrative of all of the issues that different groups are going to do to them. Right here we're within the Tremendous Bowl, and our guys stepped up and made performs.”
The field rating reads that Ramsey allowed the go-ahead 75-yard landing on the primary play from scrimmage within the third quarter. In actuality, Tee Higgins used his left hand to achieve round Ramsey, seize his facemask and fling him out of the way in which to make the catch and stroll into the top zone.
For good measure, replays confirmed Higgins along with his hand on Ramsey’s again because the All-Professional cornerback tumbled to the bottom. Ramsey appeared on the referees in disbelief when he noticed no flag was on the sector. The go doubtless would’ve been a 50/50 leap ball if Ramsey nonetheless had been on his toes.
Former NFL official Mike Pereira — guidelines analyst for Fox — wrote on Twitter that it ought to’ve been a go interference or facemask penalty in opposition to Higgins. Both private foul would’ve negated the landing, leaving the Bengals with first-and-long inside their very own 15-yard line, trailing 13-10 as a substitute of main 17-13.
Apoplectic Rams followers had been specializing in hypocrisy contemplating their final journey to the Tremendous Bowl, in February 2019, was fueled by an much more egregious missed pass-interference penalty within the NFC Championship sport. Again then, cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman was not penalized for early contact on Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis. The Saints settled for a area objective as a substitute of a primary down contained in the 5-yard line and the Rams gained in extra time.
Ramsey can’t blame the opposite two large performs he allowed within the sport on the officers, nevertheless.
Chase made a circus one-handed catch for a 46-yard acquire all the way down to the 11-yard line within the first quarter. Ramsey rapidly rebounded with a go break-up as Higgins ran a slant route on the objective line. The Bengals settled for a 29-yard area objective.
Chase obtained the higher of Ramsey once more on the primary play of the Bengals’ ultimate drive, when solely a area objective was wanted to tie the rating. Ramsey overplayed Chase’s route — leaping inside like he may need an opportunity at an interception — and was out of place and trailing the play as Chase caught a ball thrown to his exterior shoulder and turned upfield for a 17-yard acquire earlier than working out of bounds.
Ultimately, Ramsey will get his ring and the officers obtained to keep away from the highlight.
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