Shortly after the New England Patriots completed their comeback to defeat the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 in the AFC Championship Game, our colleagues at Big Cat Country posted an article with the promising title “3 awful calls by refs that cost the Jaguars the game”. The story takes a look at three allegedly botched decisions by the officiating crew around referee Clete Blakeman.
Author Ryan Day argues that the referees gave the Jaguars “a clear disadvantage in a game where there was zero margin for error” and that the officiating was a “major contributing factor” to Jacksonville's defeat.