The officiating in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Bills was a topic of conversation for Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel on Monday morning. <\/p>\n
Vrabel\u2019s team was penalized seven times in the 35-31 loss, including a pass interference call on cornerback Carlton Davis on Buffalo\u2019s go-ahead touchdown drive in the fourth quarter. The Bills had two penalties assessed against them, which was something Vrabel took issue with during an appearance on WEEI.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a difficult job, they do have a difficult job,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cThe consistency \u2014 sometimes I struggle with it. I\u2019ll say this, the Bills lead the NFL in offensive holds, and I\u2019ll leave it at that. And that would be hard for me to understand how the team that is coming into the game leading, and that\u2019s how they play, didn\u2019t have one yesterday. That\u2019s hard for me to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bills were actually penalized for holding once in the game, but Vrabel made it clear in the appearance that he thought there were other calls that should have gone against Buffalo over the course of the game. It\u2019s not the first time that Vrabel has made an issue of officiating<\/a> in Patriots games this season and he\u2019ll have to hope that things start to break his team\u2019s way in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The officiating in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Bills was a topic of conversation for Patriots head coach Mike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-350477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}