The Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills are set to face each other in the AFC championship on Sunday. The teams met earlier in the season, where Buffalo got the best of Kansas City.
The Bills proved to be the only team capable of defeating the Chiefs’ starters this season, and to make things even scarier for Chiefs fans, the NFL is set to allow the Bills to continue breaking an NFL rule in their pursuit of a Super Bowl.
No flag was thrown for pulling a ball carrier into the endzone after Buffalo guard O’Cyrus Torrence did so for running back James Cook, and per Pro Football Talk’s source, no flag will be coming for such violations throughout the remainder of the playoffs.
“instructing them to call it now would represent too much of a change from the enforcement of the rules to date in the 2024 season,” the source detailed.
NFL fans reacted to the news on social media.
“It’s Not a penalty if you are pulling on the defender who is trying to tackle the runner. Technically you are not pulling on your teammate. Many times you will see Shnow pulling on a defender then letting go of him when the defender loses his grasp on the runner,” one fan wrote on Twitter.
“I mean if the Eagles can push shouldn’t teams be able to pull? Not really a difference,” one fan added.
“I remember the Steelers got away with it earlier in the season. I remember thinking ‘well here comes a flag,'” another fan added.
It may be in the Chiefs’ best interest to follow suit and try and pull the same move.
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