Lions defensive back Brian Branch said he started a post-game fight because he was frustrated that Chiefs wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster had blocked him in the back during the game.
“I did a little childish thing, but I’m tired of people doing stuff in between the play and the refs don’t catch it. They be trying to bully me out there and I don’t – I shouldn’t have did it. It was childish,” Branch said.
Branch says Smith-Schuster illegally hit him in the back and he was upset that the officials didn’t throw a flag.
“I got blocked in the back illegally,” Branch said. “It was in front of the ref, the ref didn’t do anything. Stuff like that. I could’ve gotten hurt off that. But I still shouldn’t have done that.”
Branch acknowledged that he should have handled it differently.
“There was a lot of stuff, but I should have showed it between the whistles, not after the game,” Branch said. “I apologize for that.”
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