Browns Beat Up at Home by the Bolts as Chargers Slam Cleveland 38-14; Five Takeaways

5. The Officials Messed Up….Again

The dagger for the Browns came on a play that should have never taken place, as the Chargers were clearly in the wrong for what should have been a false start and ended up being a 45-yard score from QB Philip Rivers to Tyrell Williams.

The call was so evident, that it was a no-brainer that it should have been a penalty on the Bolts and the play shouldn’t have counted.

“It was one of those plays where you have to keep playing even though sometimes the referees miss things,” Browns DL Larry Ogunjobi said.

“You still have to finish the play because if you do finish the play and they do not score then those are points off the board. If you wait on the ref to make a call for you and they end of completing the ball and they score, well, that is it. They kept points on the board. It was an obvious call to a lot of people, but they missed it. It was just one of those things.”

Browns coach Hue Jackson said that the refs stated to him that they simply blew the call.

“Yep. Yep. Missed it. Yeah, I was told they missed it. Was very honest on my side. It sure wasn’t the guy on the other side. It was definitely the guy on my side. That was [a false start],” Jackson said.

The officiating in the league this year has been a HUGE issue for Browns and a lot of teams in the league, and once again Sunday it reared it’s ugly head.

#Browns CB Damarious Randall on the false start no-call – says team is getting accustomed to those types of calls during games @NEOSportsInside pic.twitter.com/RHN3inoa00

— Matt Loede (@MattLoede) October 14, 2018

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