Terrible job of explaining the call-it had NOTHING to do with the severity of it--the play was blown dead about 2 seconds before he threw him down. It was well after the whistle
I'm only explaining it the way it was explained by the announcers on TV.
They were complaining for the same reason I was.
if the whistle was blown two seconds before tackle, then the announcers
missed it too.
The one thing that's still bothering me about that game was that spot in the 4th qt when the ref moved the ball up 1 yard and gave NE the first down. There was about 3 minutes left I believe and the Pats were driving, they had a pass play on 2nd down and came up atleast a yard short and it seemed like the refs just handed them the 1st down? Anyone DVR the game?