押し通すs QB Matthew Stafford calls out Lions safety Kerby Joseph for the 攻撃する，衝突する that tore Tyler Higbee's ACL in Sunday's NFL プレーオフ game: 'You dirty as f*** - and you know it'

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押し通すs quarterback Matthew Stafford was overheard calling out Detroit Lions safety Kerby Joseph over a gruesome 攻撃する，衝突する he 配達するd during LA's 24-23 勝利，勝つ on Sunday.

The 攻撃する，衝突する resulted in 押し通すs safety Tyler Higbee having to 出口 the game and 結局 存在 診断するd with a torn ACL. The タイミング of Higbee's 傷害 will likely 影響する／感情 him going into next season.

During the play Higbee was 試みる／企てるing to catch a pass as he ran across the middle when Joseph 衝突する／食い違うd with the tight end's 膝 at high 速度(を上げる） as he made a bang-bang 攻撃する，衝突する to break up the pass.

Higbee's 脚 could be seen 明確に bending sideways before he landed helmet-and-facemask first on the ground.

As Joseph celebrated the big 攻撃する，衝突する that 原因（となる）d the incomplete pass microphones on the field caught the quarterbacks angry words directed at Johnson.

押し通すs QB Matthew Stafford called out Lions safety Kerby Joseph for 存在 a dirty player

Joseph 配達するd a 攻撃する，衝突する to 押し通すs TE Tyler Higbee's 膝s during their プレーオフ game Sunday

The 攻撃する，衝突する resulted in Higbee 苦しむing a torn ACL that will 衝撃 him going into next season?

'Hey! That's a good 攻撃する，衝突する. That's a good 攻撃する，衝突する. You dirty as f**k though and you know it,' Stafford said.

'You dirty as f***. It's been on tape. I've seen it. It's been on tape.'?

The 'tape' Stafford was referring to was a nearly 同一の play on Christmas Eve that led to Minnesota Vikings tight end T.J. Hockenson also 苦しむing a torn ACL.

Joseph later took to X to defend himself when he 地位，任命するd a tweet 説: 'ALL SERIOUSNESS…. THIS GAME WE PLAY IS VERY DANGEROUS…. I'm praying for bro and his family I don't have no 意向 to 傷つける no 団体／死体 and or 害（を与える） their career I been a mf dog since I （機の）カム out my mama womb and 修道女 of y'all on here gone take that away from me.'

He also received support from his チーム仲間s, one of whom was fellow safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson who even put 非難する on Stafford for the play.

'If anybody on the Ra ms feel like it was dirty, 井戸／弁護士席 tell his quarterback don't put the ball in a place where he gets his player 傷つける,' Gardner-Johnson told reporters after the game. 'You hear [Tom] Brady say it all the time.

Joseph 配達するd a 類似の 攻撃する，衝突する on Christmas Eve that tore Vikings TE T.J. Hockenson's ACL also

Gardner-Johnson and Dan Campbell 答える／応じるd to Stafford and defended Jospeh

'Man, Kerby's a ballplayer. Kerby's been doing it since he's been here, before I got here, and like I said, if the quarterback don't want any players to get 傷つける or messed up, don't put it where our safeties are going to make a play.'

Lions 長，率いる coach Dan Campbell also defended his seemingly ACL 追跡（する）ing safety まっただ中に the 告訴，告発s of 存在 a dirty player.

'That's how we play football here; just keep your 長，率いる up, see what you 攻撃する，衝突する,' Campbell said during his Wednesday 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会.?

'That will always be what I tell Kerby. Just keep your 注目する，もくろむs up so you don't 攻撃する，衝突する on the 栄冠を与える of your helmet. … Just see what you 攻撃する，衝突する. No, he's going for the thigh board and staying away from the 長，率いる. That's how we play 弁護 here ― not dirty, it's just where we 攻撃する，衝突する.'?