The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell in overtime to the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday Night Football but the game shouldn’t have even gone to overtime in the first place. With the Buccaneers trying to chew some clock time late in the game, Bucky Irving’s facemask was grabbed but it went uncalled.
Had the penalty been called, the Bucs would have been in field goal territory because that penalty and the one actually called on Tampa Bay would have offset. Assuming the Bucs are able to knock through the field goal, they’d have been ahead by six points. That would have meant the Falcons had to score a touchdown to tie the game with an extra point to win it. They wouldn’t have been able to send the game to overtime with a field goal.
absolutely clear & obvious but not flagged face mask…