The NFL admitted a mistake on a roughing-the-kicker call on Ryan Flournoy, but they blamed the error on Fox for not providing a timely replay that showed a Cowboys special teamer tipping Braden Mann’s punt.

Ryan Flournoy was penalized 15 yards for hitting the Philadelphia punter’s plant leg. But he got a piece of the ball, which still traveled 40 yards, and that should have negated the penalty.

“When there is a flag thrown for roughing the punter, we clear the play to make sure that the ball wasn’t tipped,” Mark Butterworth, the NFL vice president of instant replay, told Todd Archer of ESPN in a pool report. “We can use replay assist to pick up the flag when we have clear and obvious video evidence that the player that committed the foul touched the ball prior to making contact with the

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