Two players were ejected from games last season for making unnecessary contact with officials.
“The language is very clear on this,” texted a club staffer who works with rules and was granted anonymity because he wasn’t authorized by his team to speak on the issue. “Error was on the league office not calling in the ejection because that’s their standard and up to them to police it equally.”
Some officials are able to officiate in high pressure environments like Monday night’s without reacting. Others are quick to judgeAdvertisement The club staffer who works with rules agreed with this crew’s decision not to eject Watson for the contact because he thinks the bar should be higher for this kind of ejection. But the staffer recognized this was a departure from the way contact with an official is usually called, and he doubts that standard will be enforced uniformly for the rest of the season.“You talk about ‘scripted,’” texted another NFL club staffer who works closely with rules and was also granted anonymity. “This is why.
Watson and the Browns went on to lose 26-22, with the deciding points coming after Watson fumbled in the fourth quarter and linebackerSubscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the NFL. She previously worked as a staff writer for Defector and at Sports Illustrated, where she worked her way up from editorial assistant and personal assistant to Peter King.
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