Ugly 24: Lions quarterback Jared Goff described Monday’s offensive performance as an ‘ugly’ 24 points. Detroit had 379 yards of offense, but Goff was disappointed they weren’t able to convert some of the defense’s takeaways and turnovers on downs into points. It’s something he said they really need to put an emphasis on coming out of the bye week.
Pool report: Here’s the explanation from NFL Vice President of Instant Replay Mark Butterworth on Tampa Bay’s fourth-down conversion early in the fourth quarter that was overturned on a second replay review.
Butterworth: “We did look at the spot. We were trying to mirror angles together. Later in the process we received an enhanced view from broadcast that showed that when the knee was down, the ball was short of the line to gain. We were having issues with the referee’s O2O (official-to-official communication system), which is why he was brought back to the monitor. We did not show him anything on the screen at that point, it was simply to communicate to clean up the ruling on the field.”
Question: “So, it was a broadcast camera that prompted the second replay?”
Butterworth: “Yes, it was a broadcast camera. An enhanced view on the broadcast camera.”