Officiating crew is done

[jfkbengals]

(01-16-2022, 02:25 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I see a handful of national media people complaining about not replaying the down.
Yes, technically the rule would be to replay the down if there's a preemptive whistle, but the whistle shouldn't have been blown in the first place.
The call on the field to award the TD was the correct call.

But it wasn't the correct call, because of the whistle.  There are two things that were done incorrectly from the officiating crew on that play.  First, blowing the whistle after Joe threw the ball inbounds.  Second, awarding a touchdown instead of replaying the down.