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Sean McVay baffled by two-point replay ruling after 'TNF' loss
Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay speaks in a press conference after a game against the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen Field. Kevin Ng-Imagn Images

Rams HC Sean McVay baffled by two-point replay ruling after 'TNF' loss to Seahawks

The wackiest play of the massive "Thursday Night Football" game featuring the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks involved the Seahawks tying the contest with 6:23 remaining in regulation via a two-point conversion that left fans watching at home and those at Lumen Field wondering what they had witnessed. 

After the Rams fell to 11-4 on the season following the 38-37 overtime loss, Los Angeles head coach Sean McVay addressed the contest's most-discussed moment. 

Sean McVay "didn’t get a clear explanation" of two-point replay ruling

"I’ve never quite seen anything like what happened on the two-point conversion, where you’re lined up to kick off, then they say it’s a fumble because they had the clear and obvious recovery," McVay said about the play, per Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. "Now you tack it on, you make it a 30-30 game. Very interesting. Didn’t get a clear explanation of everything that went on, just because of some of the timing of it. They were trying to be able to do that, but that’s the thing that I’ve said, I’ve never seen anything or never been a part of anything like that, and I’ve grown up around this game."

Following a Seattle touchdown, Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold had what seemed to be a forward pass deflected into the end zone for an apparent incompletion. Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet wisely recovered the loose ball, and a replay review deemed that Darnold's pass had traveled backward for a lateral. 

Of course, that one moment wasn't why the Rams dropped to second place in the NFC West standings. After all, Los Angeles previously held a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter. The visitors also scored the opening touchdown of the overtime period but were then unable to keep the Seahawks out of the end zone for what became the game-winning touchdown/two-point conversion. 

Sean McVay wasn't "making excuses" after loss, but...

"I’m not making excuses," McVay added during his postgame comments. "We don’t do that. I don’t believe in that. It doesn’t move us forward. But we do want clarity and an understanding of, you know, the things that we can do to minimize that when we rejected the two-point conversion." 

The Rams will now need to win out and get some help to finish Week 18 as winners of the NFC West and as the conference's No. 1 playoff seed. Los Angeles next plays at the Atlanta Falcons (5-9) on Dec. 29. 

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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