“I didn’t judge as anything that I dealt with. “And with that said, I saw the player, after he made a big play, run toward the bench area of the Pittsburgh Steelers and posture in such a way that I felt he was taunting them.” “First of all, keep in mind that taunting is a point of emphasis this year,” Corrente said in a pool report. It’s just sad to see stuff like that happen in a close game like that.”Ĭorrente defended his call, saying that the contact with Marsh had nothing to do with the taunting penalty. “I’ve been doing the celebration my whole career. It’s pretty clear to everybody who saw it that I wasn’t taunting,” Marsh said. I just think that that was incredibly inappropriate.” “If I was to do that to a ref or even touch a ref, we get kicked out of the game and possibly suspended and fined.
It’s pretty clear,” Marsh said after the game. “On my way to the sideline, I got hip-checked by the ref. Marsh told reporters after the game that Corrente “hip-checked” him, calling it “inappropriate.” SVP of Officiating Perry Fewell covers plays from Week 9: /vXZzsnup46 As he ran back toward his own sideline, he made contact with referee Tony Corrente, who threw a flag for taunting, giving Pittsburgh a new set of downs. Marsh performed his patented sack celebration - a karate kick - before taking a few steps toward the Steelers sideline. With a little over three minutes to play in the fourth quarter and the Steelers up three, the Bears got the play they needed, stopping Pittsburgh on third down on Marsh’s sack of Ben Roethlisberger. On Monday night, it all came to a head with a brutal taunting penalty called against Chicago Bears linebacker Cassius Marsh. There have been numerous examples of refs taking the crackdown too far, essentially taking the passion out of the game of football. “We saw an increase in actions that clearly are not within the spirit and intent of this rule and not representative of the respect to opponents and others on the field.”
Players Association, coaches and competition committee have all made a strong statement regarding respect among everyone on the field,” the league said in August in its annual rule changes and points of emphasis video. Before the start of the 2021 season, the NFL made it a point of emphasis to remove taunting from the game.
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