In Week Four of this season, Cleveland Browns fans placed head referee Walt Anderson firmly in their crosshairs, when a spot by Anderson wiped out a game-winning first-down in a game the Browns ended up losing 45-42 in overtime to the Oakland Raiders. With Anderson once again assigned to a Browns game in their Week 14 game against the Carolina Panthers, it appears that Anderson was trying to play "makeup" with the Browns.

At the end of the third quarter, the Panthers appeared to have gotten a critical three-and-out when Thomas Davis sacked quarterback Baker Mayfield, but then, Anderson threw a flag. He ruled that Panthers cornerback Captain Munnerlyn had been holding on the play, which resulted in a five-yard penalty and an automatic first-down for the Browns. That would prove to be one of the differences in the game, as the Browns would break off a 51-yard run by wide receiver Jarvis Landry to set their offense up at the Panthers' four-yard line, setting up a go-ahead touchdown for running back Nick Chubb - Which gave the Browns a lead they would never relinquish.

Speaking with the media after the game, Munnerlyn was irate over the call, not just because he had been flagged for something that he did not believe was a penalty - but because Anderson's crew admitted to him that it may not have been.

"I don't care if I get fined or not, I think it's bull," said Munnerlyn, per The Riot Report. "There was a sack on the play - he was going down. I even went to the sidelines and looked at the picture. I didn't have my hands on him when (Davis) wrapped him up. I thought it was a plaster situation and I touched him and then the flag."

Then came the referee's explanation (It is not clear whether the explanation came from Anderson directly or from someone else):

"'I don't know what was going on, I might have missed that call. I probably messed up,'" recounted Munnerlyn of what he was told.

"I don't think, in that situation, you can say 'I might have messed up'. That's a critical situation in the football game. And to say 'I don't know, I might have messed up,' I think it's bull."

Munnerlyn, and the Panthers as a whole, have good reason to be frustrated. After a ticky-tack pass interference call on Donte Jackson last week gifted the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a touchdown in a 24-17 game, that marks the second-straight week that a dubious call by the officials has resulted in a touchdown swing that has hurt the Panthers.

With that being said, it isn't as though the Panthers were the only team on the field victimized by Anderson's whims. The Browns were the recipient of several poor calls themselves, including a ticky-tack holding call that wiped out an interception by T.J. Carrie.