Of the two most controversial things that happened in the NFL Sunday, on one I know I’m not alone and on the other I’m probably standing on an island.

There are actually three things that have bothered me since the start of the season.

We won’t get into my longstanding argument with Fox and CBS that the Redskins still remain North Carolina’s favorite team.  Not showing them or interrupting them as they did in the Saints game last week is a blatant slap in the face of the burgundy and gold’s loyal North Carolina fan base. I’ve fought this battle for as long as the Panthers have been in the unofficial capital of South Carolina — Charlotte — and always lose.

With that off my chest I want to talk about Josh Morgan and victory formations.

I think most are with me when I say Morgan cost the Redskins at least a chance for a tying field goal when he threw the ball in the face of the Rams’ Cortland Finnegan, who has been and will always be a jerk. As Mike Ditka said on Mike and Mike this morning, “He’s not a good football player but he’s a great ‘antagonizer.’”

And Morgan, who has been in the NFL since 2008, fell for it in the worst way possible, blowing a chance for a possible game-tying field goal and putting Billy Cundiff on his heels for a 62-yard attempt.

One thing I’ve learned is bullies like Finnegan will always bully and, sure, as my father once told me, you fight back, but fighting back when the game is on the line is not what my father meant.

Morgan’s clutch catch put the Redskins at the St. Louis 29 and the way Cundiff has been kicking it would have surely taken the game to overtime. Instead, Washington was backed up 15 yards by a penalty that should have never happened.

This was a case where being a professional means taking the taunts from someone like Finnegan and letting it go for the greater good of the team.

Morgan failed the team and betrayed the professionalism and discipline that has brought him this far in his career.

Sunday I was on the Redskins Facebook page saying Morgan should be let go. After the heat of the moment passed and reading Rich Campbell’s column in the Washington Times I agree that Morgan was only one of several factors that cost Washington the game. “The Redskins, and especially Morgan, must identify the lessons from a such a tough loss and become a better team because of them,” he wrote.

As far as I’m concerned Giants head coach Tom Coughlin has every right to be mad at the Buccaneers for trying to bust up the victory formation in the waning seconds of New York’s come-from-behind win.

As I said, I am basically on an island on this one because I view the victory formation as signal of surrender, that my team is not going to try and score any more, congratulations on a game well played.

For Tampa Bay not to accept that defeat screams to me denial they messed something up to begin with to put them in that situation. When I lay down my arms I’m not intending to cause you further harm and you shouldn’t fire a shot to kill me when the game is all but over — Lance Martin