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For NFL officials, this has been the year of reviewable pass interference; the year of ridiculously unclear directives, heightened pressure and increasing distrust between those legislating the game and those playing and coaching it from the sideline. Just last weekend, the disparity between pass interference calls overturned and not overturned may have reached its infuriating apex.
And the last thing any official wants, especially amid this sent-from-hell set of circumstances they’re working under in 2019, is to be discussed publicly. Any respite from headlines would be a welcome one.
But on Sunday, in the waning moments of a chaotic 49ers-Falcons tilt in which two calls were overturned in the matter of minutes resulting in a seismic change to the NFC playoff picture, they earned a mention for getting something right.