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Troy Aikman was exasperated — and honest.

“I don’t like the call at all,” Aikman said.

Aikman, ESPN’s lead analyst for “Monday Night Football,” was reacting to a penalty during the most recent game broadcast. With the Buffalo Bills up 20-17 over the New York Jets and 9:32 left in the third quarter, Buffalo linebacker A.J. Epenesa was called for a roughing the passer penalty on Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, a call even Rodgers described one day later as “a little ridiculous.”

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After the on-field explanation of the call, Russell Yurk, a former NFL vice president of instant replay and administration and now ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” rules analyst, chimed in with

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