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“On that play, we dominated blocking downfield by quantity eight, early in the course of the play.”
The offensive pass interference penalty assessed to Stefon Diggs within the second quarter of the Patriots’ 25-19 win over the Saints on Sunday worn out a 61-yard landing catch from DeMario Douglas.
After the sport, an official was requested what was seen on the play. He answered as follows, in keeping with the pool report from ESPN’s Mike Reiss.
“On that play, we dominated blocking downfield by quantity eight, early in the course of the play,” the report reads. “So, if there’s a state of affairs the place a participant blocks downfield, it’s not a foul till a move is thrown, so that you sort of put that within the financial institution. After which the move was thrown downfield later, that created the move interference.”
With the move triggering the penalty, it seems as if the decision got here in considerably late. Each groups had their particular groups models on the sphere, establishing for an extra-point try. The official was requested to elucidate the timing of the matter.
“The official was processing the play after which he got here to me over the O2O (official-to-official communications system),” the official stated. “As a result of it was a protracted growing play, he needed to rewind again to what occurred initially of the play and course of that.”
Douglas stated it took him some time to develop into conscious that the penalty had erased the landing.
“I didn’t even know at first,” Douglas stated. “I went to the sideline after which they have been like ‘flag’. I used to be like, ‘Man.’ However, , it’s that subsequent play mentality. We’ve received to go get one other landing then. Kayshon (Boutte) ended up scoring so it stayed in our room and I like that.”
Diggs informed reporters that he hopes the league will evaluation the performs, however added that he wouldn’t let it spoil the win.
“I don’t actually be tripping to be sincere,” Diggs stated, per MassLive. “I strive my greatest to make performs and catch the ball after they come to me. After I get (again) hopefully we are able to submit them to the league to see if it was purported to be referred to as or not, however I don’t cry over spilled milk.”
Diggs, nevertheless, made it clear that he disagreed with the decision.
“I’m by no means going to say it’s OPI,” Diggs stated. “Seems like them. All people’s received a job to do. Fairly certain we don’t get all of them proper.”
Patriots coach Mike Vrabel stated on the podium, earlier than the report got here out, that he didn’t have a great clarification for why the penalty was referred to as.
“I don’t actually have a lot clarification. They see one thing and we’ll proceed to play aggressive. We’ll have to scrub a few of these penalties up, however these live-ball fouls that we talked about, in that state of affairs we need to be actually aggressive. We’re taking a shot, lengthy yardage … We’ll stay aggressive, I need our gamers to be aggressive and definitely that was what they felt like they noticed.”
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