Not that it will make Indianapolis Colts fans feel better, but the NFL admitted that its officials made several mistakes in the club’s Week 7 home loss to the Cleveland Browns.
Colts owner Jim Irsay posted on X (formerly known as Twitter) that the league admitted that the officials “did not make the correct calls at end of Sunday’s” game. Irsay added that he thinks all penalties should be reviewable in the last two minutes of games.
There were two questionable calls against the Colts on the Browns’ game-winning drive that led to plenty of outrage from fans. The first was an “Illegal Contact” penalty on Colts corner Darrell Baker Jr. that nullified a game-sealing strip sack off of P.J. Walker:
On the next play, Baker Jr. was penalized for defensive pass interference against Browns receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones. This flag was highly questionable because the pass did not look catchable whatsoever.
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The Browns got a fresh set of downs at the Colts’ one-yard line. On fourth-and-goal, Kareem Hunt found the end zone to give Cleveland a 39-38 lead. The Cleveland defense strip-sacked Gardner Minshew II on the ensuing Colts’ possession to seal the game.
Instead of moving to 4-3, the Colts fell to 3-4 and find themselves outside of the AFC playoff picture. The Browns, meanwhile, improved to 4-2 and remain half a game out of first in the AFC North.
