what will I do now and here? Bendy, you can... 
watch "The Good Wife" later--
And with an extra helping hand... 
or two!
Posted on 01/05/2015 4:12:59 PM PST by Bender2
Playoffs - Divisional Playoff
SAT, JAN 10
Baltimore at New England 4:35 PM NBC
Carolina at Seattle 8:15 PM FOX
SUN, JAN 11 TIME (ET)
Dallas at Green Bay 1:05 PM FOX
Indianapolis at Denver 4:40 PM CBS
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DITTO...bad call...bad call
Bad year for the NFL, now compounded by the assine calls the last two weeks. AWFUL.
what will I do now and here? Bendy, you can... watch "The Good Wife" later--
And with an extra helping hand... or two!
No. For it to be a fumble he would have had to complete a catch, he did not complete a catch because he lost control of the ball as he fell. To complete the catch you must control through the fall, he didn’t, incomplete. We see this over and over and over and a certain crowd just can’t seem to grasp a simple rule that’s been in place for over a decade. If you are falling as you catch and the ball jars out as you fall (or you do something stupid like let it go while you’re still skidding, remember when the Lions did that a few seasons ago) incomplete.
Look at the vid in 543, exactly the play I was referring to. Must control THROUGH contact with the ground. Didn’t. Incomplete.
Funny how the original intent of replay was to take the controversy out of the game. It’s become a freaking dartboard exercise.
Ruled Bryant did not "complete the process of the catch."
Here you go again.
our boy's sure mixed it up good
No again at all. Well I suppose every couple of years with different teams involved one must explain a simple rule that folks just don’t want to wrap their heads around. But I’ve explained it when the call went against my Steelers. It wasn’t a catch. Hasn’t been a catch for a long time.
Imagine eleven proximity sensors in the football itself, two at the tips, and nine around the girth, combined with five at the periphery of the field - two at each end of each goal line forming a huge rectangle, and one suspended above the center of the field very high up. Precision distance measurement via triangulation would provide an exact position of the ball within Euclidean space. Did the ball cross the plane? Did it touch the ground? Technology could give us objective answers.
Exactly. That’s the rule. Never liked it, but it is the rule.
Ground can’t cause a fumble; they were saying on TV that the “ground made it an incomplete pass”, close to their direct words. So, probably a bad rule, I vaguely remember that Lions/Bears play as well, it was a TD that would have won from what I remember but was taken away. Probably a bad rule.
I thought Dallas played well, the announcers said Rodgers with limited mobility played well. I’m not so sure about that.
He had control when he plucked it from the air
The other challenged call was blown too.. Don’t know what video the Refs looked at there but the video they showed on Tv clearly showed the ball hitting the ground.
I’ll say exactly what I said last week about Detroit.
Regardless of the call, one way or the other, there was still plenty of time for Dallas to win the game, just as there was for Detroit, and they didn’t get it done.
I have to say, watching Jason Garrett...you can see what a class organization the Dallas Cowboys are. There are some other teams and fans that could use a lesson in having class.
Nope. Not according to the rules. Certain things must happen AFTER grabbing it to complete a catch. And one of them is that IF the player is going to the ground (falling, diving) they most MAINTAIN control THROUGH contact with the ground. Again, look at the vid in 543.
Didn’t see It come loose until the sixth time I watched.
For such skill and effort to go for naught is a shame.
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