Bills had 12 on field for crucial OT play vs. Vikes

The Buffalo Bills had 12 men connected the tract erstwhile they made a captious antiaircraft play successful overtime successful their chaotic crippled Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings.

The play occurred with 5 minutes, 17 seconds remaining successful the overtime period, conscionable aft the Vikings had completed a 24-yard walk to receiver Justin Jefferson to acceptable up a first-and-goal astatine the Bills' 2-yard line.

On the adjacent play, Vikings tailback Dalvin Cook was tackled for a 3-yard loss. Minnesota manager Kevin O'Connell said afterward that "I bash judge determination was 12 players connected the field" connected that play but said helium wanted to corroborate that via tape. An ESPN reappraisal of the crippled video intelligibly shows 12 antiaircraft players.

Had it been flagged, the Vikings would person had archetypal down astatine the 1-yard enactment alternatively of second-and-goal astatine the 5.

Vikings backmost Kirk Cousins took a sack connected 2nd down and threw an incompletion connected 3rd down, starring to a tract extremity that allowed the Bills to person a possession.

"I cognize it's moving beauteous accelerated retired determination sometimes," O'Connell said.

Earlier, the NFL's on-site replay booth failed to initiate a reappraisal connected what was ruled a completed 20-yard drawback by Bills receiver Gabe Davis with 17 seconds remaining successful regulation. Walt Anderson, NFL elder vice president of officiating, aboriginal told a excavation newsman that the play should person been reviewed and that it would person been reversed to incomplete if it had been.

That completion enactment the Bills successful presumption to necktie the crippled and nonstop it into overtime.