Vontaze Burfict on the receiver of the Steelers, linebacker Bengals, Antonio Brown, provoked the fury of Pittsburgh players.

On Monday, Steelers right tackle Marcus Gilbert called the play "pathetic", according to ESPN, and called again to suspend Burfict.

"The NFL has to do something about it," said Gilbert. "A guy like that, who deliberately tries to hurt people, this kind of game is not necessary in this league. It's sad. Hopefully one of these days, he will grow up.

"He just hurt his team," added Gilbert. "It could have been a costly penalty down there, who knows, he should be suspended for that, we'll see, but he's too good a football player to miss games for that."

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The game came on a first and 10 to 11:19 to play in the third quarter. Brown shot in a 13-yard pass and crossed the midfield while two Bengal defenders knocked him down. As the two players finished Brown, Burfict lowered his head and held his right elbow in contact with Brown's helmet.

Burfict was not penalized for the coup, although he could face a fine. Brown missed some games for evaluation but came back in the same series.

"It was a bad move," Brown said Sunday. "Thank goodness, I was able to get back into the game and finish the match. Whenever you come here, they call it the Jungle and you know that there are going to be hard times, pieces that are going to be difficult with respect to calls, but I was grateful to be able to come back and come back. "

The Steelers won the game 28-21 after Brown sprinted into the end zone on a 31-yard touchdown that left only 10 seconds on the clock.

Brown later said "I do not know" when he was asked if he thought Burfict's strike was illegal, claiming he "could not really see how he'd hit me." but had felt the touch.

In the 2015 win over the Bengals with the Wilders, Burfict inflicted a direct hit on Brown which led to a three-game suspension for the line judge and a wide receiver drop for the following week's game.

Burfict, who in his career was suspended six games for delivering illicit tubes, returned from last week after a four-game ban early in the season, stemming from a violation of the league's anti-doping policy. performance improvement.

"He hits AB then, literally, while I'm in the middle of the next game, he points to JuJu (Smith-Schuster) and says," You're next, "said quarterback Ben Roethlisberger after the match, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "How do you allow this stuff?"

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