Falcons' Jones brushes off non-call that led to loss vs. Seahawks
Like the rest of the football world, and particularly Atlanta Falcons head coach Dan Quinn, Julio Jones believes Richard Sherman interfered with his efforts to make a game-saving catch Sunday afternoon.
But the star wide receiver also knows that there's nothing he can do when a call like that is missed.
Jones explained as much after the game, confirming a belief that Sherman committed a foul on the play in question.
"I do," he said, via Vaughn McClure of ESPN. "Before I took off, (Sherman) grabbed my right side and spun me around before I jumped up. But it was just a missed call. It's over with. It's done. We're on to the next right now."
"That's not my job. If they make the call, they make the call. If they don't, they don't," Jones continued. "That's not me to coach them up on officiating the game. The only thing I can do is go out there and do my job.''
Sherman spoke of several instances in which he thought the Falcons offense got away with interference penalties of its own, simply making this game a case of the officiating staff letting the players play.
Don't expect the All-Pro cornerback to concede that he was on the fortunate end of that decisive fourth-down incompletion with under two minutes remaining, though.
"No, I feel like we won the ballgame," Sherman said.
With both the Falcons and Seahawks sitting at four wins through six weeks and comfortably atop their respective divisions, each club is well-positioned to make a run at the playoffs.
Jones and Sherman again going at it with everything on the line in January would, of course, make for another must-see matchup.