NFL commissioner Roger Goodell went to bat for league officials in light of controversy surrounding Sunday’s offside call on Kansas City Chiefs wideout Kadarius Toney, which wiped out a potential game-winning touchdown.
“That’s their job, to call when there’s a foul,” Goodell said Wednesday, according to Pro Football Talk’s Charean Williams. “There was no question about that foul. It was absolutely the right call. If you don’t call that, obviously, we would have been subject, our officials would have been subject to criticism also.”
Goodell admitted the referees aren’t perfect but said they do an “extraordinary job.”
The Chiefs appeared to score a go-ahead touchdown late in last Sunday’s loss to the Buffalo Bills when Travis Kelce lateraled the football to Toney, who scampered in for the score. However, the touchdown was called off, as Toney was flagged for being offside. Replays showed the wideout was over the line of scrimmage at the snap.