Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Germaine Pratt regrets his grievance of teammate Joseph Ossai after the AFC identify recreation loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday evening.
Ossai was once referred to as for useless roughness after he shoved Patrick Mahomes because the quarterback ran out of bounds within the ultimate seconds of the sport. The penalty intended that Harrison Butker’s field-goal strive was once from 45 yards quite than 60. Butker duly transformed the kick, giving the Chiefs a 23–20 victory and a spot within the Super Bowl.
Pratt was once later stuck on video within the Bengals locker room yelling: “Why would you touch the fucking quarterback?”. The clip has been seen tens of millions of occasions on Twitter. In the clip Pratt, who’s a loose agent this offseason, is also heard pronouncing that is his “fucking last year”.
On Monday, Pratt sounded extra contrite. “It’s a reaction that anybody has that’s a competitor,” Pratt stated. “You know what was at stake in that moment. I love this game, no doubt about it.
“They talk about my character as a teammate. Some people never played this game. They don’t know how much effort guys put into the game.”
Pratt was asked if he had spoken to Ossai since Sunday and replied that he “went around and talked to every guy”.
Ossai was playing his first full season in the NFL after missing his rookie year with injury. He cut a forlorn figure in the Bengals locker room after the game and teammates and coaches offered him their support.
Bengals head coach Zac Taylor refused to single out Ossai after the game.
“There’s certainly at least one thing every coach and every player wishes we would have done differently in that game,” Taylor stated. “And so it was once superior to peer the ones guys give a boost to every different in a in point of fact tricky, tricky second.”
Pratt said on Monday that he wants to stay with the Bengals.
“The brotherhood we constructed round here’s unequalled,” Pratt said. “It’s unstoppable. Nobody can break us no matter how many people try to throw dirt on your name in the media, nobody can stop that. I want to be back here.