The replay must have been shown more than a dozen times inside Arrowhead Stadium, each of them as uncomfortable to watch as the last. All the while
@Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster lay helplessly on the ground with several teammates kneeling beside him, including one who would later say he was on the verge of tears.
Sports columnist Sam McDowell writes about how the optics of the hit on Smith-Schuster are terrible, the kind of optics the NFL should and does want to eradicate from its game.
Jaguars safety Andre Cisco rammed his helmet into the head of the Chiefs receiver so hard that it prompted the “fencing” response from Smith-Schuster, an indication he might have been knocked out.
It was dangerous. Avoidable. In the end, the referees elected to shrug their shoulders in response.
Read more of Sam’s commentary at the link in our bio.
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