Troy Aikman Seemed To Take Shot At Patrick Mahomes After Key Penalty Call

Patrick Mahomes and nan Chiefs remained red-hot Monday night, beating nan Commanders 28-7 to tally their grounds to 5-3. Kansas City has now won 3 consecutive games and look to beryllium backmost to looking for illustration nan team that has dominated nan AFC successful caller years.

Mahomes threw for 299 yards and 3 touchdowns successful nan triumph while Travis Kelce led each receivers pinch six catches for 99 yards and a touchdown.

Midway done nan 4th fourth nan Commanders were called for a cardinal punishment erstwhile protect tackle Jer’Zhan Newton was flagged for roughing nan passer aft he tossed Mahomes to nan crushed aft nan whistle.

That led to Troy Aikman, who was connected nan telephone for ESPN, taking a spot of a changeable astatine Mahomes, saying:

"It wasn’t a batch but pinch that said, erstwhile it comes to quarterbacks, particularly this one, they’re going to protect them," Aikman said.

Here's that play:

Mahomes and nan Chiefs are nary strangers to getting questionable calls from refs, which has infuriated NFL fans complete nan years. But that telephone against Newton was a bully one. You can't conscionable flip a backmost to nan crushed for illustration that aft nan whistle has been blown.

The Chiefs led 28-7 astatine that clip and that punishment gave them 4 much downs. They ended up punting a small later but were capable to chew up a batch of timepiece and each but put nan crippled away.

Mahomes didn't do thing incorrect connected that play astatine all. The refs did their occupation correctly. The only personification to blasted connected this 1 was Newton, who took retired his frustrations astatine nan worst clip possible.

Washington is now 3-5 pinch nan loss.

Next up for nan Chiefs is simply a showdown pinch Josh Allen and nan Bills this Sunday astatine 4:25 p.m. ET successful Buffalo.

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