Premature Whistle? what the NFL says

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(01-15-2022, 11:21 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: The idiot ref shouldn't have blown the whistle anyway, burrow in bounds and easy TD. The refs have been pretty junk this year.

This ^ the play isn't dead until Joe has any part of his body touch out of bounds while he had the ball which did not ever happen. The refs were absolutely pathetic in general but that whistle shouldn't have blown until the play was over which was after it was caught in the end zone.