Houston Texans running back Joe Mixon, who played his first seven NFL seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals, expressed his thoughts about the officiating in his team’s playoff loss Saturday to the Chiefs at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium.
“Everybody knows how it is playing up here,” Mixon said. “You can never leave it into the refs’ hands. The whole world sees, man.”
“We knew it was going to be us versus the refs going into this game,” Texans defensive end Will Anderson Jr. said after Houston’s 23-14 loss in the AFC divisional round.
Mixon had 88 rushing yards on 18 carries with a touchdown Saturday, along with two catches for 12 receiving yards.
In his first NFL regular-season game after the Bengals traded him to Houston in March, Mixon rushed for 159 yards with a touchdown in his team’s season-opening win against Indianapolis. Asked after the game whether Mixon wished the Texans had his former team on their schedule, Mixon replied, “I just wanna leave them where they’re at, just like where they left me, man.”
“I think he’s mad,” NBC Sunday Night Football analyst and former Bengals receiver Cris Collinsworth said of Mixon in November. “I think he finds it hard to believe with everything that he did for the Cincinnati Bengals that it was a seventh-round draft pick that they gave up.”
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