Mike Carey has some ‘splanin to do
It was not a good day for Carey and his officiating crew. The non-fair catch call on the Jags’ Mike Thomas prior to his 78-yard punt return for a touchdown was a judgment call. The Colts thought it was a signal, Thomas said it wasn’t and the officiating crew agreed with him.
But other stuff took too long to sort out and was not sufficiently explained.
On a Jacksonville third-and-3 from the Indy 40-yard line in the first quarter, the Jaguars ran a play and Rashad Jennings got stuffed. There was a flag, Carey announced there was no foul and Jacksonville was allowed to replay third down.
“I blew it dead for a false start and we picked up that flag,” Carey told a pool reporter. “That means there was no play. So I shut it down, a dead ball foul.”
Was it an inadvertent whistle?
“No,” he said. “It was just a foul that wasn’t there.”
If you follow that, you’re doing better than I am.
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