Nearly every NFL game includes one or more injuries to players. Thursday night’s game saw referee Adrian Hill suffer a non-contact leg injury that ended his night.

And then everyone saw that the league has no viable backup plan for the unexpected departure of the chief of the officiating crew.

Oh, they have a plan. It’s not just viable. Umpire Roy Ellison was given the white hat and, eventually, a microphone. Ellison became both the umpire and the referee for the rest of the game.

Two important jobs in one, for a game with plenty of playoff implications. And with two eyes instead of four watching the action behind the line of scrimmage, Ellison missed an obvious illegal touching violation in the fourth quarter, when a desperation throw by a harassed Josh Allen clearly struck one of his

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