Chiefs wide receiver Kadarius Toney is catching heat after breaking his silence on that costly offside call from Week 14.
The wideout is blaming the referees for his team’s loss, claiming it’s the official’s job to let a player know whether he’s lined up correctly. Of course, he’s wrong about that. While the refs do give warnings at times, they are not required to.
“Whether it was, an inch, two inches, whatever in front of the ball, the referee got a job to let me know,” is quoted as having told reporters by ProFootballTalk. “He didn’t make no effort. You watch the video, he didn’t make no effort to say anything about no alignment. So apparently, he wanted to do that regardless. But like I said, we’re just going back to the details and just make sure we fine print everything.”
Social media has trashed this opinion, suggesting to Toney that he should just remain onside when playing football.
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The WR also accused the referees of lying about giving him a warning.
“Then they came back and lied and said they gave me a warning, which I never talked to a ref,” he said.
To date, none of the officials have gone on record to state that the player was warned. Carl Cheffers, who threw the flag on that particular play, spoke to a pool reporter after the game and pointed out that he wasn’t under any obligation to warn the player but never claimed to have cautioned him.
