CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jarvis Landry has received high praise for his monster block on Carlos Hyde's 4-yard touchdown run against the Bills Friday night, but Bills' defenders had other choice names for it.

They called the block on rookie cornerback Taron Johnson "dirty'' "B.S." and "ridiculous.''

Johnson, who was slow to get up, said Landry later apologized to him, according to ESPN. He walked off the field with trainers, but later returned to the field.

"Landry, he's a good receiver, physical guy, but some of those plays that he has -- Aaron Williams, Taron, I'm pretty sure he has other ones -- I just think they're dirty," Bills linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said Sunday, via ESPN. "Coming from the outside of the box in, the league needs to do a better job of calling penalties on those types of plays.

"Obviously defenders get called all the time on stuff that is probably less egregious than that. If we're going to protect our football players, we need to protect everybody, not just offensive guys.''

He added, "It was dirty at the end of the day, and that's how I feel about it."

.@God_Son80 laid down an *incredible* block on Hyde’s TD run Friday night 👀



“We scored a touchdown and that’s what it takes sometimes.” » https://t.co/FMDzfrP0ec pic.twitter.com/tX8S5MYMs3 — Cleveland Browns (@Browns) August 19, 2018

The Bills have a history with Landry and vicious blocks from his Dolphins days.

In 2016, Landry delivered an illegal crackback block on Williams, causing the former Bills' safety to suffer head and neck injuries. Landry, who also apologized for that block, $24,309.

On Friday night, Landry came down inside, appeared to lead with his shoulder but hit the unsuspecting cornerback high. He was not flagged for the hit, and has received "a lot of'' praise for it. The Browns tweeted out the block, describing it as "incredible.''

"I pride myself on being a complete receiver, and it takes those types of plays, making those types of blocks, or just a block period, to make sure Carlos could get in, or Duke (Johnson), whoever's running the ball, or another receiver,'' Landry said Sunday. "It's important.''



Bills' safety Micah Hyde also ripped the block.



"That's ridiculous," Hyde said Sunday. "Because if a defensive player does that to an offensive player, he's getting ejected. I don't care if he lowered his shoulder or not. He's coming all the way from No. 1, past the numbers, and flying down onto the hashes and cleaning up somebody. That's the same as that play that Aaron Williams got hit on a couple years back and basically ruined his career.

"To me, that's B.S. You can't do that. All you have to do is get into position, screen him off. He doesn't have to come in and try to kill anybody."



Johnson, however, blamed it on himself.

"I just got to be more aggressive on that play, that's the main thing," he said. "It's still football, at the end of the day. So stuff like that happens sometimes. I have no animosity toward him at all."