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Marvin Lewis wasn't a happy camper after Cincinnati's 34-31 loss to the Cardinals on Sunday night. The Bengals coach believes that the officiating crew made a "phantom call" late in the fourth quarter that might have cost his team the game. 

With six seconds left and the game tied at 31, the Bengals were hit with an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The officiating crew threw a flag on Bengals defensive lineman Domata Peko because they heard him simulating the Cardinals snap count, which is illegal. 

Lewis called the flag "ridiculous" because Peko wasn't doing anything illegal.

"They get the phantom call there at the end, it's kind of ridiculous," Lewis said after the game, via the Bengals website. "I trust what our player did and said. He's alerting a run and not anything to do with what they're saying. I don't see how they make that call at that point in the game like that. I trust our guy to be honest with me."

The penalty played a major part in the game's outcome.

Before the flag, the Cardinals were getting ready to spike the ball at Cincinnati's 28-yard line. The spike would've set up a game-winning field goal attempt from about 46-yards. However, because Peko was penalized, the ball was moved to the 14-yard line, where Cardinals kicker Chandler Catanzaro would nail a 32-yard game-winning field goal. 

Lewis is mad about the "ridiculous" call because if the refs don't make it, then the game goes to overtime. On the play where Peko was flagged, Cardinals offensive lineman Ted Larsen jumped offsides. 

As you can see below, Larsen's hand was literally touching a Bengals player before the backjudge threw his flag on Peko. 

After the game, Larsen told NFL Network's Alex Flanagan that he was "relieved" that Peko got flagged because he thought he was going to get hit with a false start penalty. 

If Larsen had been penalized, there would've been a 10-second runoff and the two teams would've gone to overtime. 

So did Peko do anything illegal? 

It depends who you ask. 

According to Larsen, Peko was simulating Arizona's snap count on the play, but Larsen didn't think Peko was going to be flagged because the Bengals defensive lineman had been doing it all game without getting penalized. 

That takes us back to Lewis' main problem: Remember, the Bengals coach was in disbelief that the officiating crew decided to make the call "at that point in the game."

For his part, Peko says he didn't do anything wrong. 

"I was saying, 'Get set. Get set,'" Peko told ESPN.com.

The Bengals defensive lineman was also surprised that a penalty was called at all.

"I don't know, man, they jumped offsides," Peko said, via the Enquirer. "I don't know, I guess I get a penalty for that. That's the first time I've ever heard that penalty be called, I think since I've been in the NFL, you know, 10 years."

As for the Cardinals, they're convinced the refs made the right call. 

Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer told MMQB.com's Peter King that "It was obvious" that Peko was simulating his snap count on the play. For what it's worth though, Palmer and his teammate don't agree on how often it happened.

Larsen said it was going on all game, while Palmer said it only happened on that final play. 

Although Peko disagrees with both players and says nothing happened, the Cincinnati defensive lineman did say that his team "should've never been in that situation."

The Cardinals won the game because the Palmer torched the Bengals defense. The Arizona quarterback drove his team 70 yards in 61 seconds with no timeouts left to set up the game-winning kick.