It was a bad call. It was a late call and it looked like a costly call when it happened.

Everybody from CBS officiating rules analyst Gene Steratore to the less-credentialed experts on the internet was incredulous at the first-quarter offensive pass interference call on Patriots receiver Stefon Diggs that negated a highlight film 61-yard touchdown pass from Drake Maye to DeMario Douglas.

The call was so late that the Patriot offense was already on the sideline celebrating. The extra point team was coming onto the field. The contact between Diggs and Kool-Aid McKinstry, which wasn’t near Douglas, was so innocuous that it took the CBS TV crew a few minutes to find the replay.

“It was a really late call. I was on the sideline about to sit down,” Maye said.

For a young team and the

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