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I'm guess I'm getting a little tired of hearing what R should have done (stay away from the punt, score more earlier, etc.) to win the game. Yes, 47 some odd minutes (or whatever it was) of game was played and R could have "done more." And yes, it is wrong for officials who are not there to rake that crew "over the coals" for that call.
That having been said, there is not a good excuse for missing this call (even if the crew was 100% correct the rest of the game). I have a lot of trouble saying the officiating crew decided the outcome of a game, but you can't let some mistakes by one team justify mistakes on the officials part. I know it's unfair that perfection is expected, and if this call happened in the second quarter of what ended up a 42-0 game, we don't hear about it, but none of that is a good reason to say "oh well" about an incorrect call that the rest of the crew should have questioned.
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