Tyreek Hill believes his former team has gotten saved by the zebras in a couple of high-profile spots.
On his podcast, “It Needed To Be Said,” Hill expressed an opinion that the referees should have let the Jets’ fourth-quarter interception of Patrick Mahomes, negated by a controversial holding penalty on Sauce Gardner, stand.
“The Chiefs and Jets, that last penalty call on Sauce Gardner, it was a 50/50, that’s all I’m gonna say,” Hill said, as covered by the Kansas City Star.
“It was a rough one. It was a rough one. Now I saw the interview that Pat did, he was like Sauce was grabbing him at 15 yards. Then I seen what Sauce said, I only grabbed him at 7, the receiver ran into me.
“It was a 50/50. When the game is on the line, you gotta let the players play. It’s a good game.”
Gardner was livid with the call after the game.
“It’s real frustrating. I ain’t even gonna lie,” he said.
“The receiver ran into me, it was a collision, same thing that was happening all game and they didn’t throw no flags.
“[Mahomes] threw the ball outside the receiver, and [Carter] was there, and he made the play. Then the ref threw the flag. To me personally that’s like when you play basketball one-on-one and you go up to make the basket, and they wait to see if you miss, and then call the foul. I can’t believe that happened. That was just crazy.”
On his podcast, Hill also thought the Chiefs caught a break in the Super Bowl when Eagles defensive back James Bradberry was flagged in the final two minutes for holding JuJu Smith-Schuster.
“The Chiefs,” Hill said, “they got saved like that last year for real though (against) the Eagles in the Super Bowl, for real. If we’re being for real.”
Hill, who played on the Chiefs from 2016-21, joked about the break against the Jets helping fan the flames of the publicity of the rumored romance between Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
“Then they come back and get saved in the Jets game, maybe because Taylor Swift was in the building,” Hill said. “I don’t know what’s going on. Hey, whatever Kelce is doing, I know you’re helping out the NFL.”