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“It’s a miss,” CFL director of officiating Darren Hackwood said. “It’s safe to say that he should have been ejected for what he did.”

The acknowledgement of the mistake and the suspension handed to Adams do nothing to help the Bombers now.

In a dogfight for first place in the West Division at 9-4, they are still trying to figure out how they blew a 24-point lead and lost in Montreal.

Meanwhile, Adams is suspended for the Alouettes’ game on Saturday in Vancouver against the 3-10 B.C. Lions. It’s a game that is unlikely to have much bearing on the final standings.

Bighill was incensed after the game and spoke out on social media about the fact that refs messed up the call, even though Adams was handed a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty for ripping off Bighill’s helmet.

“I stood up and looked right at the ref who looked right at the incident and saw it,” Bighill said Tuesday. “Immediately I knew that was an ejectable offence. The fact that it wasn’t taken care of the right way, initially, is frustrating, but you can’t change things. (Adams) came back, played a great game. He earned that win. You’ve got to live with it.”

While Bighill believes back judge Jocelyn Paul was looking right at the entire incident, that is not the CFL’s version of events.

Hackwood said neither the officials on the field, nor in the video replay command centre had a good enough view of the incident to make the call in real time.

“We’re not gonna guess and eject a player,” Hackwood said. “We tell our officials they need to see the whole action. We’re not making things up. He just didn’t see enough of what happened, clearly enough, to eject the player.”