ALAMEDA, Calif. -- While it may have appeared that Jon Gruden did not know the rule for challenging a play late in the first half of the Oakland Raiders' 40-33 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, Gruden insisted he knew what he was doing when he threw the red flag on the field.
Call it a flag of dissent, then.
Because after replays seemed to show the football hitting the ground on a touchdown catch by Travis Kelce, the play had already been reviewed in the booth, as all scoring plays are, and ruled a score.