The Minnesota Vikings lost a chance at a comeback drive against the hosting Los Angeles Rams on Thursday night because of an egregious missed facemask call.
Right at the end of the fourth quarter with Minnesota down eight, the Vikings got the ball back to try and tie the game up in regulation.
However, Darnold got sacked in the Los Angeles end zone by Rams outside linebacker Byron Young to scrap Minnesota’s chances at tying things up.
On Young’s sack, you can clearly see him grab Darnold’s facemask to swing him to the ground. Even Young reacted after the play like he knew he made a terrible mistake to give Minnesota a big gain in penalty yards.
However, the refs didn’t call it, and that was that.
Been a bad week for Minnesota and referees, Darnold gets sacked for a safety and the referee misses the obvious facemask pic.twitter.com/Vq4Q1scO81
— CJ Fogler 🫡 (@cjzero) October 25, 2024
HOW ON EARTH DO YOU MISS THAT CALL. Young thought he was cooked, too. pic.twitter.com/ODujgqfHaM
— Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) October 25, 2024
How the officials missed this is beyond us. That was a clear and blatant facemask to the point that Young even reacted to it after it happened.
The Vikings have a right to be furious about this, even if there was no guarantee they’d tie the game up. The missed call denied them the full extent of their chance.
