While this was happening on the Falcons side of Raymond James Stadium, a PFWA pool reporter went to speak with referee Jerome Boger about the call.
Asked for clarification, Boger was quoted saying: "What I had was the defender grabbed the quarterback while he was still in the pocket, and unnecessarily throwing him to the ground. That is what I was making my decision based upon."
In the locker room, a few players who did speak to the media about the call described the moment as "frustrating," particularly because the offense felt as though it was finally clicking.
"It's crazy because it was just a regular sack. It wasn't anything extra on Grady's part, but I guess the refs saw it the other way," Caleb Huntley said. "Had we gotten the ball, shoot, we probably wouldn't be sitting here sad and mad about the outcome of this game."
Huntley spoke about the shift in momentum the Falcons had started to feel after an exceptionally slow start offensively.
To begin the fourth quarter, Avery Williams ran the ball in for an eight-yard touchdown run. It was the first of the day for the Falcons. Two drives later, the Falcons were back in the end zone, with Marcus Mariota finding Olamide Zaccheaus for a 19-yard touchdown before connecting with KhaDarel Hodge for the two-point conversion to bring the score to 21-15.
"We kind of had our momentum shifting in a different way," Huntley said. "(We) had (Olamide Zaccheaus) and Avery scoring. We knew if we got the ball back we would have continued doing what we had done (when we did) the job before."
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