A Controversial Call In The Jets-Patriots Game Cost New York A Touchdown

The New York Jets looked like they might have been able to take down the New England Patriots on Sunday afternoon. While both teams came in with a 3-2 record, the Patriots have been dominant against the Jets in the last decade or so, and this looked like it could have been a massive win for New York if a few things broke right.

Unfortunately for the Jets, a controversial ruling by the officials took a touchdown off of the board, which ended up being a huge deal, because the Patriots won the game 24-17.

Josh McCown found Austin Seferian-Jenkins for what looked like a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Because all scoring plays are reviewed, the officials took another look and noticed that the ball appeared to move as Seferian-Jenkins got into the end zone.

Had he made it in, the Jets would have trailed, 24-21, with a little more than eight minutes remaining. Instead, Seferian-Jenkins was in a state of shock that this would get overturned.

Instead of a touchdown, this was called a fumble that went out of the end zone, giving the Patriots the ball. It’s one of the weirdest rules in the NFL, and what is even weirder is that the officials claimed that they saw enough to overturn the original ruling. Even FOX Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira thought there wasn’t enough evidence to overturn the call.

The Jets will have to hope that they can get revenge for this one during Week 17, when they travel to Foxboro to take on their divisional rivals in their regular season finale.