{"id":747999,"date":"2026-02-12T23:53:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747999\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:53:48","slug":"prime-videos-terry-mcaulay-may-have-saved-seahawks-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747999\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Video&#8217;s Terry McAulay may have saved Seahawks&#8217; season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While rules analysts continue to infuriate NFL viewers, they seemingly are more important than ever to networks and even the league itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/for-critical-two-point-review-in-rams-seahawks-nfl-got-an-assist-from-terry-mcaulay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In a new report at Pro Football Talk<\/a>, NBC Sports analyst Mike Florio has fresh information on how Prime Video\u2019s Terry McAulay played a key role in a big Seattle win.<\/p>\n<p>Late in the Seahawks\u2019 Week 16 win over the Los Angeles Rams on\u00a0Thursday Night Football, the eventual Super Bowl champs ended up on the fortunate side of an official review. The outcome, which turned a Sam Darnold incompletion into a fumble recovery and two-point conversion for running back Zach Charbonnet, tied the game at 30 and helped Seattle eventually complete a comeback win. Without that, the Seahawks likely do not win the NFC West.<\/p>\n<p>Florio has continued digging into the strange delay on the official review that night and is now citing three sources who say McAulay actually called his counterpart at NFL Media to encourage it in real time.<\/p>\n<p>McAulay <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/terry-mcaulay-seahawks-insane-two-point-conversion.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pointed out the possibility of a fumble on the Prime Video broadcast<\/a>, and soon after, the officials on-field announced they were reviewing the call. And according to Florio, before saying that \u2014 and during the nearly two minutes between the incomplete pass call and the review \u2014 McAulay called NFL rules analyst Walt Anderson directly.<\/p>\n<p>While the NFL has pushed back on the idea that what rules analysts say on television <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/nfl\/replay-review-center-hear-audio-tv-broadcast-while-making-calls.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">affects their decision-making in the replay office<\/a>, it appears McAulay took matters into his own hands here.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say McAulay\u2019s opinion became the officials\u2019 ruling. He merely suggested a review, at which point the league\u2019s replay office determined Darnold\u2019s pass had indeed gone backward and was a fumble, picked up by Charbonnet.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the idea of a media figure (even one like McAulay, who used to be a referee) directly affecting the outcome of a game is remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While rules analysts continue to infuriate NFL viewers, they seemingly are more important than ever to networks and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,15739,238,237,261,2635,64587,1299],"class_list":{"0":"post-747999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-prime-video","11":"tag-seahawks","12":"tag-seattle","13":"tag-seattle-seahawks","14":"tag-seattleseahawks","15":"tag-terry-mcaulay","16":"tag-thursday-night-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116060359631360898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}