{"id":311313,"date":"2025-10-17T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311313\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:55:10","slug":"nfl-films-deletes-video-detailing-brian-branchs-struggles-ahead-of-lions-chiefs-brawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/311313\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Films deletes video detailing Brian Branch\u2019s struggles ahead of Lions-Chiefs brawl"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NFL Films video that some thought unfairly criticized Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch\u2019s performance against the Kansas City Chiefs has since been deleted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The video was posted Thursday as part of NFL Films\u2019 \u201cTurning Point\u201d series, which provides analysis of a crucial moment in two of the league\u2019s biggest games each week. The Lions\u2019 30-17 loss to the Chiefs was featured this week, and focused on Branch, particularly the moments of frustration that led to a postgame brawl he instigated.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a long game for Lions safety Brian Branch, number 32,\u201d narrator Louis Riddick said in the video. \u201cHe got burned by (Travis) Kelce\u2019s basketball move. He got showed up by (Patrick) Mahomes. He got juked by Xavier Worthy and took a shot from JuJu Smith-Schuster. The turning point led to Branch\u2019s boiling point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shortly after publication, the NFL responded to The Athletic\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cNFL Films wants all of its shows to have a distinct voice and point of view. In the case of \u2018NFL Turning Point,\u2019 that voice and point of view is Louis Riddick\u2019s. He spends time every week with the show\u2019s producers watching each segment and going over the script before narrating them. That particular sequence felt different to NFL Films as part of a 9-minute breakdown of the Lions-Chiefs game than it did as a standalone excerpt on social media. On X, it felt overly critical to Brian Branch so it was taken down.\u201d<\/p>\n

That boiling point involved Branch slapping the helmeted head of Smith-Schuster on the field at Arrowhead Stadium after the game. Smith-Schuster, who was later bleeding from his nose, fell to the ground, then went after Branch. Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco was seen trying to hold Branch back while the brawl escalated, with several other players joining in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m tired of people doing stuff in between a play and refs don\u2019t catch it,\u201d Branch said in the Lions\u2019 locker room afterward, an interview that was shown in the NFL Films video. \u201cThey\u2019re trying to bully me out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Branch, who lost an appeal<\/a> earlier this week, was suspended for one game for unsportsmanlike conduct for his role in the brawl. He will miss the Lions\u2019 home game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d on Oct. 20 and will be eligible to turn to the active roster on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The video also included Branch\u2019s comments about the play that made him angry \u2014 a block in the back by Smith-Schuster in the game\u2019s waning minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got blocked in the back illegally. It was in front of the ref, the ref didn\u2019t do anything,\u201d Branch said. \u201cI could have got hurt off of that, but I still shouldn\u2019t have done that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NFL Films video that some thought unfairly criticized Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch\u2019s performance against the Kansas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":311314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9000,3570,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-311313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-detroit-lions","9":"tag-kansas-city-chiefs","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115390796968683360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}