The Kansas City Chiefs moved to 4-1 on the season after their thrilling victory over the Las Vegas Raiders on Monday Night Football, but the win didn't come without controversy.

Said controversy is obviously the roughing the passer penalty that was called on Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones in the first quarter of the game. Jones was flagged after he sacked Raiders quarterback Derek Carr and landed on him.

But the tricky part is a) Jones used his left arm to brace the fall, essentially showing awareness and an intent to prevent his full body weight from landing on Carr and b) Jones actually had possession of the ball as he fell toward the ground.

Meaning, Jones was technically the ball carrier as both players fell.

Chris Jones with a trifecta, forced fumble, sack, recovery taken away via “full body weight” roughing the passer penalty. pic.twitter.com/fQdxOkhMFS

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It was an awful call and it was yet another egregiously awful RTP penalty in less than 36 hours. The NFL is clearly cracking down on these penalties after the Tua Tagovailoa disaster, but the overreaction is literally killing the game.

And it's costing teams games.

Good luck finding anyone not wearing silver and black supporting the call. It was objectively bad and hell, there are probably even some Raiders fans who think it was awful.

Chalk up Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes as someone who wasn't a fan, either.

“Yeah, I mean, it wasn’t the greatest call in the world,” Mahomes said after the game. “At the same time, I mean it is a hard job as a referee, but obviously, whenever the ball comes out and that guy, I mean he is going to try to get off of him, but they are both fighting for the ball at the same time, and it’s tough.

"But you have to find a way to bounce back, and we did.”

The call led the Raiders to three points and allowed them to extend their lead to 17-0, but fortunately the damage stopped there. The Chiefs didn't lose the game, so they aren't in the same situation as the Atlanta Falcons.

But, still. The NFL's decision to make these calls is an extremely troubling trend and no fan should want even the slightest possibility of this happening to their team.

And, as Mahomes points out, there's a common sense element that should be at play. However, for whatever reason it's not being applied.

"It's something where, obviously, you want to protect the players in all aspects of the game," said Mahomes. "But at the same time, there's a common sense factor where guys are trying to play football and trying to win football games. So, whenever it's blatant and they do something dirty to try hurt someone – you wanna make sure that's called.

"But at the same time, you don't want it to affect the football game and change the outcome."

This is something that is obviously out of everyone's control, so the only thing we can do moving forward is hope that at least some kind of common sense will be applied at some point.

And hopefully that's much, much sooner than later.

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