Controversy over monday night football game

In the wake of another controversial call on Monday Night Football, the Sport Science crew breaks down whether or not Danny Amendola could have scored on the play cut short by an inadvertent whistle. An inadvertent whistle deprives the Patriots of valuable yardage and a potential touchdown. Tom Brady speaks after the Patriots' Monday Night Football win over the Bills about a controversial, inadvertent whistle call and how the team keeps fighting despite a plethora of injuries.

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Home Extra Mustard. LeBron James : "These replacement refs gotta go man!! Packers just got game took from them. I'm sick like I just played for the Packers. Bill Maher : "So the NFL with replacement refs is now like a card game with Jokers included as wild cards - every 10 plays or so it just makes no sense".

He's clearly lost. Or has he? By rule, the ball is dead at the spot where the reception was made. That is where the receiver gained possession.

Part of the rule states that "when an official sounds his whistle erroneously while the ball is still in play, the ball becomes dead immediately. The rule goes on to note that if a player has possession at the time of the whistle, the team can elect to take possession at the point of possession or redo the play. But if the ball is loose "resulting from a legal forward pass" -- in other words, if it's in the air -- the ball is returned to the previous spot, and the down is replayed.

Said Bills coach Rex Ryan : "Right before it's thrown is when the whistle happens. So that's -- Marcell stops. And then everybody stops.

The thing I don't understand is how you can give it a completion if the whistle is blown there, while, let's just say the ball is in the air when the whistle blows. The fact of the matter is, everybody stopped. Steratore also ruled that a member of the Bills' sideline interfered with an official -- possibly coach Rex Ryan, who walked in front of Arthur -- and added 15 yards to the play for unsportsmanlike conduct.

But I don't ask specifics. It's irrelevant for us, really, when we enforce it. Brady, for his part, acknowledged that referees can make mistakes but said Steratore's crew is one of the best in the league. I think the refs make mistakes too, so it's just one of those things. They're not perfect. We're not perfect as players. I know they get a lot of criticism and so forth, but that crew is a good crew.