After Further Review: Jets-Dolphins

By popular demand, we're again going to have a post after each game that breaks down some of the controversial decisions from the officiating crew in the game.

Penalty Count

Dolphins 5-26 (leading to three Jets first downs)
Jets 6-36 (leading to two Dolphins first downs)

Note: This does not include penalties that are declined or off-set.

Plays where the call was obvious, uncontroversial or not visible on broadcast footage

Jets Penalties

False start on Josh Myers on 3rd-and-6 in the fourth quarter. Flinched right before snapping the ball.
Brandon Stephens roughing the passer. Stephens came in with force at the chest level, but - as we see all the time - this caused his helmet to ricochet upwards and apparently made contact with that of Malik Willis. These will be called nearly every time. Well, half of the time (you know which half).

Dolphins Penalties

Malik Washington holding penalty on Minkah Fitzpatrick. This was a clear grab that prevented Fitzpatrick from blowing up a run in the backfield, but David Bailey made the play anyway. Since Miami was near their own end zone, the Jets had a choice of 1st-and-17 or 2nd-and-13 and declined the penalty to opt for the latter. This was Miami's first penalty, in the middle of the second quarter - earlier than usual but it still feels like opposing teams can do what they like early in games against the Jets with no fear of a call.
Patrick Paul holding on Kingsley Enagbare, reaching across to grab him and prevent him from making the sack as Willis was forced to scramble on 3rd-and-13. The Jets stopped Willis and opted to decline the penalty to make it 4th-and-2.
Josh Uche illegal use of the hands. Very clearly had his hand caught up in Olu Fashanu's face mask. The Jets opted to accept the penalty and a 1st-and-10 rather than decline because Garrett Wilson's catch would have made it 3rd-and-7 despite being more than five yards downfield.
Defensive holding on Juju Brents on the play where Omar Cooper made a 60-yard catch. Brents was covering Wilson, but was not visible on the broadcast footage because it happened away from the ball. On the same play, Adonai Mitchell appeared to be held by Jason Marshall but this was not called - unless that was what the official saw and they just got the number wrong.
Holding on Kyle Louis on a kickoff return. This happened off-screen and was not visible on the broadcast footage.
Unnecessary roughness on Malik Herring. Shoved Kenyon Sadiq to the ground at the end of a play where Braelon Allen got down to the half-yard line. So, this only got the Jets a quarter of a yard, and they still didn't score a touchdown.
Pass interference on Brents against Wilson on a two-point conversion. Basically tackled him before the ball arrived, so an obvious call.

Plays that require further discussion

Jets Penalties

Jamien Sherwood defensive holding on the play where Miami scored their first touchdown. This was away from the ball so had no effect on the play but it was so soft as Sherwood just contacted his man coming off the line and stayed engaged with him. Considering a few of the non-calls last week, this seems unbalanced.
D'Angelo Ponds pass interference in the end zone. Ponds was clearly beaten on a crossing route and grabbed the receiver to prevent him from getting to a Willis pass so there is no argument in terms of this being a penalty. However, Ponds grabbed the receiver while Willis had the ball and appeared to have let go by the time the throw was released. This therefore should have meant the call was defensive holding and a half-the-distance to the goal-line penalty, spotting it at the two-and-a-half yard line instead of the one. That would have made a touchdown less certain at the end of the half.
Fashanu offensive holding. This was definitely a penalty on Fashanu, who reached across Zach Sieler to prevent him from getting off his block to make a tackle. However, Sieler wanted a face mask penalty and may have had a point as Fashanu's hand was caught up in the face mask briefly. Interestingly, this was initially announced as on Chuks Okorafor, which was obviously wrong because he played zero snaps. You may recall that Okorafor gave up a costly pressure on his only offensive snap of the season so far, but one penalty in zero snaps is crazy. The official record was corrected to give this to Fashanu.
Defensive holding on Harrison Phillips. Holding on defensive linemen is seldom called and, whenever it is, you can see that the call could potentially have gone either way but also that if the kinds of things it gets called for really do constitute holding, then it should be called on virtually every play. Phillips was on his way to the ground and may have grabbed Aaron Brewer's jersey more to break his fall than to prevent him from making a block at the second level, but this did affect Brewer slightly and the officials saw it, so the call was made.
Illegal shift on Mason Taylor to negate a successful two-point conversion to Mitchell. Taylor went in motion, then returned to his original position and then the Jets snapped the ball. The officials said he didn't get set before the snap, which wouldn't ordinarily have been necessary. However, the problem here was that another player was in motion and didn't get set before Taylor started his motion. New York had plenty of time here, but the timing was obviously off. Perhaps this is why Frank Reich doesn't use motion very much.

Dolphins Penalties

Defensive holding to negate Chris Johnson's interception. Mitchell went to ground, and did slip to an extent, but the defender did cause this by reaching across his helmet and preventing his a ability to break outside. The other question was whether this contact occurred with the ball in the air, in which case it should have been a spot foul instead of five yards. This was unclear from the replay and Smith may even have seen Mitchell being grabbed and thrown that way to draw the flag.

Notable no-calls etc

Here were some of the other notable missed calls, replay situations and controversial moments:

Kevin Coleman's catch on the sideline was difficult to see. He definitely came up with the ball but the official indicated that it was juggled. His right foot was just about down as the ball first arrived and then he got his left foot inbounds, but then his next step was out of bounds as Stephens forced him out so it would have needed to be a clean catch to be inbounds and the fact Miami did not challenge or even refute the call suggested this was correctly ruled as incomplete.
Enagbare also appeared to be held by Paul on the play where Miami scored their first touchdown. Paul reached across his chest/neck to slow his inside rush down.
The spot was obviously correct when Miami picked up the first down on 4th-and-1 at the two-yard line, and the ball did not break the plane.
The Jets wanted a late hit on Herring after he shoved Geno Smith to the ground following a throwaway. This perhaps would have been a soft call, but was basically the same as the one that was called on Bailey last week.
The officials picked up a defensive holding flag on Miami. The replays clearly showed that it was the most blatant defensive holding penalty you could ever expect to see on Omar Cooper and there is no justifiable reason why they would cancel this, unless it was deemed that the penalty occurred after the play was over or the quarterback had become a runner. This did not apply, as it was committed almost immediately.
The officials originally flagged Qwan'tez Stiggers for tripping, then picked up the flag because replay assist correctly confirmed that the return man had tripped over his own teammate. However, the fact that he was tripped by a Miami player should have meant he was not down by contact, which was pertinent because the play was blown dead just as he lost a fumble.
Ollie Gordon II seemingly ran into his own man and went to ground, then got up and continued running but it was blown dead as he was ruled down by contact. It looked like there was contact with a Jets player here so that was correct.
Smith was asking for a helmet to helmet hit on a play in the fourth quarter but no call was made.
Was Caleb Douglas out of bounds on the long touchdown in the fourth quarter? It looks like he was not, but it was very close.
What went on after that touchdown was scored was very suspicious because it is obvious one of the officials had decided there should be a penalty on Miami which would have offset the Jets penalty and negated the touchdown but the other officials talked him out of it. You could see Brewer upset with what the officials were saying initially but then the Miami players started celebrating once the officials decided only to punish the Jets.

Let us know what we missed - or misinterpreted - in the comments...