Seahawks coach Pete Carroll on his ESPN 710 Seattle radio show Tuesday that a review of the film of Bobby Wagner’s leap over the line to block a field goal in Monday night’s win over the Vikings showed it was close enough to within the rules to be “a judgment call.’’
Carroll also said linebacker Mychal Kendricks suffered a knee injury and that his status for next Sunday’s game against the 49ers is uncertain.
Here’s more on what Carroll said on those and other topics following a 21-7 win over Minnesota Monday night:
WAGNER LEAP AND BLOCK ‘A JUDGMENT CALL’
A growing consensus of former NFL officials and others around the league on Tuesday was that Wagner probably should have been called for a penalty on the play for using teammates as leverage to propel him over the line (that would have been a 15-yard penalty and given the Vikings a first down at the 15-yard line with about five-and-a-half minutes left, down 6-0).