A SEQUENCE TAYLOR HEINICKE WISHES HE COULD ERASE.

He grew up a Packer fan, and now he wears Washington Redskin Rentseeker uniform number four in tribute to his boyhood hero, Brett Favre.  On Sunday, he was calling plays in Lambeau Field.

Facing third-and-goal from the Green Bay 3-yard line, Heinicke scrambled to his right to find a wide-open path to the end zone. He then dove and rolled in for what he thought was a score.

A Packers fan growing up, Heinicke then lived out a likely childhood dream, hopping into the stands for a Lambeau Leap when he spotted a Washington fan in the crowd.

Unfortunately, there are rules protecting quarterbacks from being hit on running plays.

It turns out Heinicke's knee hit the turf with the ball just short of the goal line. Heinicke wasn't tackled. But he gave himself up on the play as a quarterback diving head first. Instead of an easy walk-in touchdown, Heinicke was instead down just short of the goal line after replay review overturned the call on the field.

The drive wasn't done yet, though. Heinicke got another shot on fourth down. But the Packers stuffed him on a quarterback sneak and took over on downs. Instead of cutting Green Bay's second-half lead to 21-14, Washington remained down a pair of touchdowns on the road against an Aaron Rodgers-led offense.

After the game, though, the quarterback demonstrated he was familiar with Swamp ways.

After the game, Heinicke took more issue with officiating than his own execution.

"I don’t want to get into specifics, but I felt like I was in there both times," Heinicke told reporters, per ESPN's John Keim. "I don’t want to get fined up here so I'm not going to get into specifics."

In the same way that Washington politicians blame everybody but themselves for losing an election, Washington footballers and their scribes blame a rigged system.  "Referees, Aaron Rodgers combine to drop Washington to 2-5."

While Heinicke shouldn't have leaped, the play also should have been a touchdown. Refs and replay officials and rules officials at the league level are just over complicating things at the goal line. It's too much and it's silly. That was a touchdown. Just use your eyes. Also would have helped if Heinicke just dove the whole way into the end zone. And on Washington's fourth-down attempt from the one-foot line, replay officials again botched a touchdown.

Although the referees intrude themselves too much into the flow of the game, they do have the task of enforcing the rules, and if you're going to annoy the football gods by Leaping while not wearing green and gold, well, karma knows what it's doing here even if Joe Biden doesn't.