Premature Whistle? what the NFL says

[Joelist]

The whistle was basically simultaneous with the catch so the call was correct. Meanwhile, in the same game the Raiders:

- Got away with an illegal pick play on a TD drive.

- Were gifted a timeout when the snap was clearly BEFORE the timeout call. At worst that should have been a flag on the D for 12 men on the field.

- Waved off a legit roughing the passer on the Raiders and hit us with a phantom one.

I agree that this ref crew was a joke but let's be real, the Raiders got a lot of zebra love.