Green Bay Packers took a lot of heat from the national media over what happened on Monday Night Football. Truly, it has been ridiculous to see people overreact to this whole thing. Packers’ defense stood tall and prevents the Lions from scoring touchdowns. That’s the reason they won the game on Monday. Not the officials. David Bakhtiari alerted officials that Tre Flowers kept putting his hands towards his face, and that drew the attention of the officials. Are players not supposed to alert officials when they’re getting punched repeatedly in the throat? Here’s what he said to the media yesterday per Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

“I went over to the ref,” Bakhtiari recalled in a corner of the Packers locker room, before slipping out into the night after his team’s 23-22 comeback win Monday, “I said, ‘Hey, are we not calling hands to the face again? Because the past three plays, I’ve been staring at the sky.’ And he’s like, you know, he’s not looking at my side, but I at least made him aware.”

If Bakhtiari does not say anything, who knows if we’re even having this discussion today. When you make some officials aware of things happening against you, they do not buy into what you’re selling them. Others pay more attention to it. The first penalty was clear that Flowers got him in the facemask. The second doesn’t look that way, and the NFL admitted as such. But Flowers did this to himself. After the first time going for Bakhtiari’s throat, he should have found a new move to deploy in trying to be the all-pro left tackle. That was his only move like Seth Rogan’s dice move in Knocked Up. That’s no one’s fault but Flowers.

People gave the Lions sympathy handjobs all day yesterday was tiring and exhausting. People will likely calm down about things and move on to whatever happens on Thursday night between the Chiefs and Broncos. I look forward to that.

Charlie.