Cheffers said he followed the roughing the passer rule when he called a penalty on Chris Jones in the first half.
The Raiders led 17-7 at the half when Jones stripped the ball from Carr. Jones came up with the ball after landing on Carr, but Cheffers threw a flag for roughing the passer.
Jones landed on Carr with his full body weight while the quarterback was in the pocket, according to Cheffers.
Cheffers said Carr gets all the protection he needs in a passing posture. The defender landed on him with full body weight after tackling him. The quarterback doesn't have to worry about being tackled.
Jones took the ball away from Carr.
Cheffers saidCarr gets protection until he can defend himself. He gets protection even though he threw the ball. Until he is no longer in control of the ball, that continues.
The penalty that happened with less than two minutes to go in the first half was not reviewed.
The coach went off to argue. After the teams traded field goals in the final minutes of the game, Cheffers was cornered byReid as the teams went to the locker room.
"I got it out of my body,'' he stated. I said what was necessary.
Jones braced himself with his arm not holding the ball so he wouldn't land on Carr.
He wanted to know how to tackle people. I don't know how to avoid rolling on him. I'm working hard. I'm over 300 pounds. Do you want me to do something? I'm racing to get the quarterback.
Jones mentioned a roughing the passer penalty on Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Grady Jarrett the day before for a tackle on Tom Brady. The Falcons had a chance to win the game, but the penalty gave the Buccaneers a first down and they ran out the clock.
Jones said that they need to be able to review the penalties in the booth. The next step is that. Looks can be deceiving. It is getting ridiculous. Teams are losing games because of it.
I stripped the ball and it took me to the floor. There is a critical situation in the game. We're down 10 points. A lot of the roughing calls would be called back.
The penalty on Jones was not the greatest call in the world according to Mahomes.
There is a commonsense factor where guys are trying to play football and trying to win football games. "If it's blatant and they try to hurt someone, you want to make sure that's called, but you don't want it to affect the football game and change the outcome.''
The AP contributed.
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