McKay: Never seen level of scrutiny on officiating this high

President and CEO of the Atlanta Falcons Rich McKay joined Dukes and Bell.

McKay talked about the officiating around the league this season.

“You got one extra crew because we do rotate through but that’s pretty much all you got.” McKay said “Each official gets graded every play, so there’s a lot of grading going on and the there’s a lot of completion going on between them because that’s’ how playoff crews are awarded. Everybody that officiates in our league wants to officiate in the playoffs so their level of scrutiny is high. It’s not a perfect science and I’ve never seen the level of scrutiny on officiating that we have, but I think we have to accept it.”

Rich talked about the call at the end of the game where Kyler Murray appeared to be short of the first down marker.

 “The run out of bounds by Kyler Murray is really a rules question; he’s not really considered out of bounds until he hits the white and in that one you look at his right foot had he hit the white line with his foot then he’s short, but the problem is he didn’t at least you couldn’t prove he did. So then the ball gets placed wherever when his foot lands where is the ball, so that makes it much closer then you and I wouldn’t have thought when we watched it live in replay.”

When asked about why the fumble was upheld against the Falcons on Sunday after the review.

 “On the fumble, that one I struggle with I thought that was one we had all the angles.” McKay said “But I think what New York said and what was said on the broadcast because New York clearly called Mike Perira on the broadcast and told them their concern was they did not have view with his calf being down, the way the rule reads if you’re down if anybody part touches the ground your considered down except your hand that’s the way we always written the rule. So sometimes in replay what happens is we’re all looking at the ball, we’re lookings at the arms, we’re looking at the shoulders but in reality some other body part has actually touched the ground in this case maybe it’s the calf, I looked at it I didn’t see it that way.  But I want to go back now aand look at it one more time and look at it on all the views, but that was the explanation given on tv.”