The Cincinnati Bengals are going to have a hard time looking back at Sunday’s AFC Championship loss to the Kansas City Chiefs and come away thinking they got a fair shot from the officiating crew. On top of having nine penalties called against them, the Bengals seemed to be on the wrong end of no-calls throughout the night and, of course, the third-down mulligan.
But there was one play in particular against the Bengals that the officiating crew appeared to have called correctly. And that was Patrick Mahomes’ third-and-four scramble for a first down that set up the game-winning field goal (after the unnecessary roughness penalty).
