NFL VP of officiating: Ref 'did best job he could' with coin toss redo

NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino says referee Clete Blakeman made the best of an unusual situation that arose during Saturday's divisional-round game between the Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers.

After his first attempt at an overtime coin flip failed to rotate, Blakeman picked up the coin and tried again. The Cardinals won the toss a second time and went on to defeat the Packers 26-20.

"I've never seen in football where the coin didn't actually flip," Blandino said on NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" on Tuesday. "And although the rulebook doesn't specifically state that it must rotate, I think common sense would dictate that the coin has to flip in order to have a coin toss."

The NFL released a statement Sunday supporting Blakeman's decision to redo the coin flip, stating that he "used his judgment to determine that basic fairness dictated that the coin should flip for the toss to be valid."