2022 NFL Week 14 After Further Review Part One

Hey Barfstool, gonna call for an investigation after this one?

Yep, we got another one in the Thursday nighter starting this week.

Jerry Tillery committed an act which the league needs to investigate as so stupid, the only conclusion which could be drawn is that he was attempting to throw the game.

According to "The Comeback", through MSN:

An apparent game-sealing interception was nullified by a pass interference penalty by Raiders’ cornerback, Amik Robertson. One play later, though, Chandler Jones sacked Baker Mayfield for a nine-yard loss. With a running clock, the Rams’ best option was to hustle back to the line and have Mayfield spike the ball to kill the clock. That would have given Los Angeles third-and-19 with somewhere around a minute to go from its own 13. Only — thanks to Tillery — that’s not what happened. 

Well after the play was over, Tillery committed a dead ball, unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. What did he do? With the referee looking right at him, Tillery swatted the ball out of Mayfield’s hands.

Jerry Tillery gave the Rams 15 yards and a free first down for this pic.twitter.com/0PNAxzwVNn

— Christian D'Andrea (@TrainIsland) December 9, 2022

This is a purported professional athlete of the highest caliber, vetted, etc., who signed a four-year, almost $12,000,000 contract with the Chargers before being cut this year.

Short of a nefarious act, HOW CAN HE BE SO FUCKING STUPID to do that in that situation?

Well, there's a simple answer:  It was a nefarious act.  Jerry Tillery was ordered by the NFL to throw last night's game to the Rams, and the very fact he will see the field again for the Raiders (or the NFL at all) is proof.

If we even applied the laws we have in this country in the first place, as well as purport any degree of legal belief the NFL is on the up and up and the games are legitimate, Jerry Tillery would've been arrested off the field for investigation of sports bribery after last night.

Just like Mark Ingram II would've been the Monday Night before.  (EDIT TO ADD:  Oh, and how convenient:  Done for the year with an MCL tear after the incident.  Services rendered, right?  If he got hurt on that play, then a small maybe (he still probably had the ability to take the one more step necessary, however)...)

I remember the movie Eight Men Out, and, after the rumors of the Black Sox throwing the World Series, reporters in the press box circling purported names of match-fixing players for the team, based on their play in the Series.  How do we not have that same standard here, especially given TWO incidents, now, three days apart, of open-faced MATCH-FIXING on the part of NFL players?