Sean McVay publicly asked NFL for answers after bizarre 2PT situation on TNF

The battle for first place in the NFC West and, ultimately, the no. 1 overall seed in the conference, did not disappoint. On Thursday Night Football, the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks went at it for four entire quarters, but in the end, these Rams came up short in overtime.

No matter how you spin it, this was an instant classic. But, there was one key play in the game that demands answers. Rams head coach Sean McVay took part of his postgame presser to discuss what Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit called the craziest two-point conversion in the history of the NFL.

McVay told reporters that he wants clarity on the situation:

“I’ve never seen anything like that. I grew up around the game.”

McVay was, of course, referring to the two-point conversion that tied it all up in the fourth quarter.

Sean McVay questions the officials' call on a wild two-point conversion play by Seattle

With just over six minutes remaining in the fourth, Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold his tight end AJ Barner for a 26-yard touchdown. The score would bring it to 30-28 with the Rams still ahead, pending either a PAT or two-point conversion attempt.

The Seahawks would end up going for two in this scenario.

Initially, Darnold turned to try a screen pass. Yet, after he released the football, it hit the helmet of Jared Verse and fell incomplete. Both teams headed off the field and began getting ready for kickoff with the Seahawks down by two.

There was only one small hangup: Zach Charbonnet had picked up the ball after it had dropped incomplete, and he was standing in the end zone when he did so.

The officials took time to go back and review the play after calling it incomplete and noticed Darnold technically threw a backwards pass..

And, in absurd fashion, because this was technically a backwards pass, the play was ruled a fumble. Now, Charbonnet would be given credit for the two-point conversion and Seattle had just tied it up at 30 apiece.

Truly, McVay isn't being hyperbolic when he says he'd never seen anything like it. Even Michaels and Herbstreit said something in similar tone. It wasn't something anyone had seen before; a real first of its kind.

Of course, it had to go against the Rams, and in a roundabout way, ended up costing them the game. Had the call stood as incomplete, Los Angeles would have come out of this one victors by a two-point margin.

So, McVay is right to demand some clarity. We'd all like a bit of that, to be frank.