Twitter Goes Ham Over Missed Pass Interference Call Late In Rams-Saints Game
With the game tied at 20 and less than 2 minutes remaining, the Saints were driving deep in Rams territory, with a chance to kill the clock and attempt a potential game-winning field goal.
On a third down play, Drew Brees threw a pass to Tommylee Lewis, only Lewis was hit by Rams’ corner Nickell Robey-Coleman way too early. Unbelievably, there was no flag on the play.
This wasn’t called for pass interference by the way https://t.co/j2kSnpBgQd
— NFL Humor (@NFLHumor) January 20, 2019
The missed call would set up the following sequence: the Saints were forced to kick a field goal, which they made. Up 3 with over a minute left to play, Jared Goff drove the Rams down the field for a game tying field goal as the clock expired.
The rest was history as Brees threw an interception on the first drive of OT, giving the Rams the chance to kick a game-winning field goal.
But twitter users, NFL players, NFL fans from around the world were absolutely egregious about the missed call.
Bro what was that lmao
— Chris Harris (@ChrisHarrisJr) January 20, 2019
Not only was that pass interference, the DB could have had a pick 6 if he would have played sound coverage looking for the ball.
— Derek Eagleton (@derekeagleton) January 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/1087123733339426816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1087123733339426816&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fftw.usatoday.com%2F2019%2F01%2Fsaints-rams-pass-interference-refs-no-call-video-fan-reaction-nfc
"nah that wasn't pass interference" pic.twitter.com/7dcm6PmiEG
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) January 20, 2019
— ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) January 20, 2019
I'M SORRY, NO FLAG???
— Katie Nolan (@katienolan) January 20, 2019
I'm as big a Rams fan you will find and that is one of the worst no-calls I've ever seen. Abhorrently bad.
— Riley MaskAtee (@RileyMcAtee) January 20, 2019