Officials calling Sunday's Panthers-Browns game appeared to have two miscues on Cleveland's final offensive po se sion mistakes that helped keep the drive alive before a game-winning field goal gave the Browns a 26-24 season-opening triumph.The Browns received the ball with no timeouts and 1:13 left on the clock. They trailed 24- Christian Villanueva Jersey 23 following a go-ahead field goal from Carolina's Eddy Pieiro. Cleveland quickly advanced to its own 40 after officials called a questionable roughing the pa ser penalty on Brian Burns.Burns appeared to make incidental contact with quarterback Jacoby Bri sett's helmet, prompting the call.Heres the Roughing the Pa ser call that and the rest of the Baker Mayfield apologists are crying about.Seems like a pretty evident helmet to helmet hit by Brian BurnsGood call. Shawn Iyer (@ShawnIyer) MORE: Referee Brad Rogers in the postgame pool report justified the call, saying, "It was called because there was forcible contact to the head and neck area."Still, the NFL this offseason advised officials to call fewer roughing the pa ser penalties in instances where contact to the head and neck area is incidental. Burns after the game said he didn't think it was a penalty with his understanding of the rule."We've had meetings on that to understand the new rules," Burns said ( Michel Baez Jersey ). "My understanding was that if it wasn't blatantly like you said, forcible, they wouldn't call it. But I haven't seen the play yet, so I don't know exactly what happened.Panthers coach Matt Rhule echoed Burns' thoughts on the call:"The new rule in the NFL, as it was explained to me and the best I know, that defensive linemen, grazing to knock the ball, if they make contact with the quarterback's helmet this year, it's not a foul, it has to be forcible," Rhule said after the game. "Burns drove the tackle back into him and extended his hand out, I expected that to not be a foul, and it was called a foul."Running back Christian McCaffrey was more frank in his summation of the call:"Obviously it was a horrid call, Burns' play," McCaffrey said. "We can't put the game in the officials' hands. It's our job to not do that."MORE: Officials had another questionable ruling later in the drive, this time a no-call. Facing third-and-1 from the Panthers' 40 with 13 seconds left, Bri sett took a step Joey Lucchesi Jersey back before spiking the ball. Carolina argued the combination of moves should have resulted in an intentional grounding, which would have resulted in a 10-yard lo s and 10-second runoff.As noted by Will Brinson of CBS Sports, quarterbacks are prohibited from delaying pa sing actions for "strategic purposes."Rule 8, Section 2, Article 1, Item 4 of the NFL rulebook pretty clearly states you cannot fake spike then actually spike.Panthers got hosed pretty badly. Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) Indeed, referees initially threw a flag before waving it off. Rogers on the field said Bri sett merely took a step back Andres Munoz Jersey before spiking the ball; in his explanation, he said the first move did not make the second illegal.Here are two videos of the play, with the latter appearing to show Bri sett looking right to receiver Amari Cooper before spiking the ball:Heres the Browns fake spike, spike play. Per rules you cant spike the ball after a fake spike but refs clearly had no idea about the rule , Browns went on to kick game-winning FG Gifdsports (@gifdsports) Sure looks like Jacoby Bri sett peeked over at Amari Cooper to his right ... Bill Voth (@PanthersBill) MORE: Had the penalty been called, the Browns' game-winning field goal attempt would have been from 68 yards out, with only 3 seconds remaining Austin Hedges Jersey on the clock. The Ravens' Justin Tucker set the current NFL record for longest field goal, , in a win over the Lions last season.Rogers in the pool report again claimed Bri sett's action was legally allowed, claiming his step back did not "disqualify the quarterback from spiking the ball, and we allowed him to do that by rule."Rhule in the postgame news conference said that was not the explanation given to him by officials on the field, however."I started screaming, intentional grounding, 10-second runoff, the game's about to be over," Rhule said. "They obviously called it and changed it, and then it was told to me that he just pump-faked."A lot of things at the end didn't go our way."