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The day after the Ravens-Cardinals game, NFL V.P. of officiating Dean Blandino provided an explanation of the illegal-formation-that-wasn’t call against Baltimore that didn’t clearly place blame on referee Ronald Torbert — and that actually seemed to place some of the blame on Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel.

On Friday, in the weekly officiating video, Blandino revisited the play, and he made it clear that Torbert was at fault.

“Confluence of events here where the referee is correcting a number from a foul on the previous play,” Blandino explains. “He’s looking up and he’s making that announcement, and he doesn’t recognize [Urschel reporting as an eligible receiver]. This is on us. We have to recognize this. We have to recognize this, and we want the player to get some acknowledgement from the referee. But again the player’s doing what he’s supposed to do. We have to recognize it. We’ll make the adjustment and it won’t happen again.”

That’s a pretty broad and unequivocal promise from Blandino, leaving no margin for error going forward. And the acknowledgement of an error by Torbert, given that it happened during a prime-time game, leaves open the question of whether he’ll be disciplined in any way — either suspended with pay or reassigned — given the reaction to Monday night mistakes from back judge Greg Wilson in Lions-Seahawks and side judge Rob Vernatchi in Steelers-Chargers.

Meanwhile, the league still hasn’t explained the decision of the officials not to blow the whistle when the forward progress of Cardinals running back Chris Johnson had been stopped.