There were several minutes of confusion in the first half of Monday night's game between the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks leading up to a missed 54-yard field goal.

The issue began over whether Richard Sherman should have been penalized for unnecessary roughness against Carpenter.

"Ridiculous," Rex Ryan said. "Absolutely ridiculous. [Officials' explanation] doesn't matter [because] it was wrong. It's clear what happened: The guy roughed our kicker. Jumps offside and roughs our kicker."

Carpenter, initially attempting a 53-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining in the half, appeared to be injured when Sherman went offside and fell into Carpenter's legs. The play was blown dead because of Sherman's penalty. Sherman also appeared to get away with an unnecessary roughness penalty that wasn't called by Walt Anderson's officiating crew.

Anderson defended his decision after the game.

"I didn't feel like the actions and the contact, because we were shutting the play down, warranted a foul," he told a pool reporter after the game, adding that the stadium was "loud" and that Sherman might not have known officials had blown the play dead.

"One of the things we're just looking for is, does the player have a chance to realize that we're shutting the play down from that standpoint," Anderson said, "and whether or not he has an opportunity to avoid any type of contact once he realizes that we're getting the play shut down."