Darren Rizzi said as much as he could in his position as interim coach of the New Orleans Saints.

“I’m on thin ice anyway,” Rizzi told the media after Sunday’s 20-19 loss to the Washington Commanders. “So I’m going to bite my tongue, but I didn’t agree with the call. Yes.”

The “call” Rizzi was referring to came in the first quarter as the Commanders advanced down the field and into Saints territory. New Orleans got a stop and brought Washington’s field goal unit onto the field. The Commanders made the field goal to take a 3-0 lead, but the play was called off due to an unnecessary roughness penalty on Payton Turner.

Washington’s offense returned to the field and ended with a touchdown pass from Jayden Daniels to Terry McLaurin that gave the Commanders a 7-0 lead.

“It’s a shame that seven points were scored because it was a 1-point game. So it’s a shame that seven points in the game came from a penalty on a field goal block and a quarter that was over and they let the game run.” Rizzi said. “That’s just a shame. It “It’s not a criticism, it’s a disgrace.”

Rizzi was visibly upset about the field goal call as the Fox cameras showed him berating an official on the sideline.

“The explanation I got was that Payton Turner crossed over the long snapper and his back leg touched the long snapper’s head,” Rizzi said. “That’s the explanation I got. The long snapper is a defenseless player. There is no doubt about that. If anyone is in favor of it, I’m as a special teams background man. They briefly showed the replay. I have to watch it before I made up my own mind about it, but in the replay I saw, that (Turner’s leg hitting the head of the Commander’s long snapper) isn’t really what I saw.