Tom Brady isn’t letting anything slide under his Eagle-eyed vision, given the duties of a Fox sports broadcaster. With so much on the line in Sunday’s NFC Championship game in Philadelphia. The last thing fans would want is for NFL officials to dominate the news. But it seems like Brady called out something that did end up influencing the game. So, don’t be surprised if the NFL community yet again puts the referees under extreme scrutiny.

See, there was a moment in the second quarter when the Eagles were looking for a fourth down on the Commanders 45-yard line. That’s when Tom Brady caught something that the referees were supposed to call out. They called Saquon Barkley, a two-touchdown scorer, the culprit. His hold on Commanders LB Frankie Luvu, when Hurts was looking for a 5-yard completion, went unnoticed. Brady points it out, saying, “I think Saquon Barkley gets away with a little bit of hook.”

He even asked Fox rules analyst Mike Pereira for his views on the missed holding penalty call. Pereira, for one, echoed Brady’s claim, adding, “I don’t think there’s anything to think about. That was clearly a hold and should’ve been called.” Officials missing Barkley’s hold on Luvu allowed Hurts to find AJ Brown for a 31-yard completion. Then, a few plays later, it proved more costly for the Commanders. The Eagles used a ‘Tush Push’ play that allowed Hurts to score a 1-yard TD on the same drive. And that gave the Eagles an 8-point lead when the game was still 14-12.

This shows how costly the officials’ blunder was. If the referee had given a flag for that holding call, then, who knows, maybe the Eagles wouldn’t have scored that TD. Now, whatever happened on that drive, Barkley continued to dominate the proceedings on Sunday. His two consecutive TDs in the first quarter, one for 60 yards and another 4-yard, helped the Eagles gain a massive 14-3 lead early into the game. Then, what followed was clear domination.

With the Eagles just minutes away from a trip to New Orleans. Commanders CB Marshon Lattimore had a day to forget with an unnecessary roughness penalty assessment and shoving with Eagles players.

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Lattimore, who had just joined the Commanders two months back in a trade with the Saints, didn’t really have a great start in Washington. He has only played 4 games for the Commanders while racking up just 16 combined tackles. However, he had his biggest moment with the Commanders when he got into a shoving match with Eagles receiver AJ Brown. It all started when the Eagles were looking for a TD in the second quarter just a yard away from the Commanders’ red zone. That’s when all hell breaks loose between Lattimore and Brown. Cameras caught Brown ripping off Lattimore’s helmet with them throwing hands at each other face masks.

Moments later, the Eagles did score a 1-yard TD to lead 20-12. Then, failed a two-point conversion on the second straight Tush Push attempt. Those incidents may have led to former NFL QB Dan Orlovsky calling out Washington for their trade of Lattimore, “The Lattimore trade just hasn’t worked out for Washington the way they hoped.” Well, the final result just speaks for itself: what didn’t work out, or what did? Because the Commanders are heading home with a humiliating 55-23 defeat in Philadelphia. Their fairy tale run to the NFC Championship state after 33 years comes to a crushing end at the hands of the Eagles.