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By letter of the rules, it was holding. If you look online, there are better angles of it where the jersey is obviously pulled. Fox replays didn't do a good job of catching it.
With that said, they weren't calling that all game. And it sucks for a player to go 59 minutes where refs are "letting them play" and then call a really ticky-tack holding in the biggest play of the season.
My issue with refs all season is consistency. I have no idea what a roughing penalty is. I have no idea what pass interference or holding is. Heck, the refs will just randomly throw out a taunting flag when they're bored but ignore 90% of other taunts.
League needs to figure out what is and isn't a penalty and enforce it equally during the season.
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