The fallout from the touchdown-turned-fumble in Sunday’s Jets-Patriots game continued on Monday. NFL VP of officiating Al Riveron defended the overturned call…
The fallout from the touchdown-turned-fumble in Sunday’s Jets-Patriots game continued on Monday.
NFL VP of officiating Al Riveron defended the overturned call in the fourth quarter that changed an Austin Seferian-Jenkins touchdown into a fumble that gave the Patriots the ball at the 20.
Riveron, on a conference call with reporters, explained that Seferian-Jenkins did not regain possession of the ball as he crossed the goal line. He also said there was enough video evidence to overturn the call.
“No doubt about it,” said Riveron, who made the overturn from New York on Sunday. “It was clear and obvious. We use that for every replay. Unless it is clear and obvious to us, we will not change the ruling on the field. This definitely met that criteria.”
As for the Jets, the message from Todd Bowles was clear: Move on.
“They’re not changing the call,” Bowles said. “We’re not winning the ballgame. We have moved on from that. I don’t really give two shakes about it.”
Bowles emphasized that his attention was now on this week’s opponent, the Dolphins.
“It wasn’t the reason we lost the game,” Bowles said. “We’ve moved on from that. It’s not changing. We’re not going to cry about it all week. We have to go play Miami.”
“Obviously, when it doesn’t go your way, there’s a human element that is very frustrated, but unless you can show me a precedent where they’ve gone back and changed the score of a game, for us moving forward, it really doesn’t do any good,” McCown said. “It’s gone, it’s over with, and it’s frustrating and we’ll hate it and all that stuff, but for us to continue talking about it just does no good.”
The Jets had zero sacks of Tom Brady on Sunday. They are 31st in the NFL with seven sacks, and none of them by a defensive lineman.
Defensive end Leonard Williams said the Jets need to do a better job on first and second downs of putting teams in third-and-long. He also said quarterbacks are getting rid of the ball just before they get there. Still, he acknowledged it has to change.
“I don’t want to make excuses,” Williams said. “We definitely have to get some more pressure and hits and sacks on the quarterback.”
Bowles said the Jets waived WR Jalin Marshall on Saturday because they needed a backup nickel cornerback [they activated Xavier Coleman from the practice squad] and had enough wide receivers to play Sunday. The Jets re-signed Marshall to the practice squad Monday.
