The New England Patriots drew the short end of the stick in the overall bad officiating in Thursday’s Thanksgiving road clash with the Minnesota Vikings.
Yes, this is a sour grapes post, but stay with me because there’s plenty of video evidence to back it up.
Let’s start with the fact that it was an incredible game with the Patriots losing to a talented Vikings team that should be considered a legitimate Super Bowl contender. Kevin O’Connell, a former Patriot, has done a tremendous job of taking an already good football team and turning it into an elite one. The Patriots felt some of that with the defensive front getting stifled and the secondary consistently beaten by Justin Jefferson and T.J. Hockenson.
You have to tip your hat and give credit where it’s due.
But then there were those plays that made you want to take off that hat and throw it at the television screen. The officiating was messy at Minnesota with potentially game-changing calls going completely unnoticed. Here are five blatantly missed calls in the Patriots and Vikings game.