Browns upset with pass interference call

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After the game was over, Cleveland Brown players, coaches and fans were upset about the pass interference call made late in the game that ultimately provided the Patriots with the win.

CSNNE:

"I feel like it wasn't pass interference," [Leon] McFadden said. "But all I can do is go back and look at the film and make my corrections."

His coach felt the same way.

"I did not," Browns coach Rob Chudzinski said when asked if he believed pass interference should have been called on the play. "I felt like those two were both jostling for the ball and obviously, the penalty was called. So at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what I think."

But was this the wrong call? After all, the Patriots were bitten with a no call in the Carolina game just a few weeks ago, but the fact of the matter is this. The pass interference call doesn't make up for the Browns giving up the game in the first place. Cleveland had many chances to close out the game, even going up 26-14. Surely they can at least recover an onside kick, right?

Living in San Diego, another relevant fact was the man called for the foul, Leon McFadden. A quick Google search will lead you to him playing cornerback for San Diego State University. This is mildly important because he was a solid corner coming out of college and was regarded as the best DB in the Mountain West Conference, and stayed for his senior year because he wanted to be drafted higher.

If he hadn't stayed another year, he may have not have ended up in Cleveland, thus meaning a rookie may not have been defending Boyce in that game defining play.

Nonetheless, no one will always be happy with the calls made on the field. Good or bad, calls will be made and the game will carry on regardless, Cleveland.