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Coach Rex Ryan was not impressed with the officiating in Monday night's game the Bills lost to the Seahawks and he's not alone. The NFL's head of officials, Dean Blandino, agreed.

It all started in the seconds before halftime, as the Bills attempted a field goal. On the first attempt, cornerback Richard Sherman jumped offsides and barreled into kicker Dan Carpenter. Offsides was called but for reasons that remain a mystery, there was no roughing-the-kicker call.

Instead -- and hours later, it's still hard to wrap our heads around this -- Carpenter was forced to leave the field because he had been examined by trainers.

Ryan went ballistic.

But after the Bills spiked the snap, Carpenter returned with one second left for a second attempt. Except this time, the Bills were flagged for delay of game, even though there was an official standing over the ball with just four seconds on the play clock.

My God, people.

Finally, after a 5-yard penalty, Carpenter honked the kick. (Of course he did.)

Afterward, Ryan was asked about the circus coming to town in the form of an NFL officiating crew.

"Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous," the coach said with more restraint than we can imagine mustering in such a situation. "It's clear what happened, the guy roughed our kicker. Jumps offsides, roughs our kicker. And then because we had to go out and attend to him, and it wasn't called roughing the kicker, then we had to spike the ball so we can come back in and kick."

There was controversy at the end of the game too -- and Sherman was again involved -- but the officials made the right non-call that time.

Either way, Ryan's point stands: "From an officiating standpoint, I think you could do a little better than that," he said.