Posted on 01/11/2015 1:13:42 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
I’ve turned the NFL off a long time ago. It doesn’t really matter to me. It’s college basketball season and KU plays Okstate tomorrow night.
But even though I was rooting for GB, I felt bad for Dez Bryant as that was one helluva reception.
Hopefully the owners will reconsider what constitutes a completed catch ... as they did in MLB when the "transfer rule" was quickly withdrawn.
It matters to you enough to post on the threads and look up articles. If it really didn’t matter you wouldn’t even have clicked on the thread.
Last year that was an incompletion. 5 years ago when Calvin Johnson ran afoul of the rule it was an incompletion. That rule has been in place a long time. Paul Maguire used to complain about it back when SNF was on ESPN.
I am a Saints fan, so I had no dog in this hunt. But I will say the cowboys were blatantly robbed. Shamefully, the GB fans are blindest Homers in the league.
Baloney.... Besides bender, there might be one other cowboy fan on that thread. It's fans of all the other teams that are saying the pack got late Christmas gift from the zebras in the replay booth.
Which part of breaking the plane of the goal line do you not understand? Show the same slide 0.4 seconds earlier won't you?
That matters not.
WHAT IS A CATCH?
Observers too often are fooled by a receiver having two feet down or what seems like possession for an eternity. If the receiver falls after the catch, he must hold on to the ball after hitting the ground or it is an incompletion.~Mike Pereira, the former NFL VP of officiating
http://nypost.com/2011/09/07/nfl-official-explains-tough-rules/
You may not like the rule, but it is a rule and thus, it was a good call.
No doubt the Packer D was aiming at Romo's knees.
You keep saying that, but I am trying to find in that same rule, where an incomplete pass can take place after receiver has possession of said ball, and takes three steps before it being dislodged, and as a added bonus, after the plane of the goal line has been breached.
I have probably seen at least a 100 cases where refs have ruled "non-fumble" when down by contact after a reception. Doesn't that seem contradictory?
"Note 1: It is a catch if, in the process of attempting to catch the ball, a player secures control of the ball prior to it touching the ground and that control is maintained during and after the ball has touched the ground."
If the ball shifting in Dez's hand constitutes a loss of control, why wouldn't the ball shifting from the Packers player's forearm to his hand constitute a loss of control? Both should be complete or incomplete. The calls cannot split and both be good calls.
Can you support them being split by a quote from the rules?
Both incomplete: Packers last TD drive stops (it was a 3rd down play). Both complete: Cowboys have 1st and goal on the Packers 1 yard line. Only by calling the two completion rulings different (both were booth reviewed), does the game end the way it did.
Inconsistency was not what I was responding to and is an entirely different issue. On this particular play, and based on the rule, the call was correct; the receiver must hold on to the ball after hitting the ground or it is an incompletion and he did not.
Thanks for the correction.
I was trolling. Duh! ;)
Heck, I don't even like the Cowboys.
I am Saints fan, and I think it is sheer gall to start a chest thumping thread after winning the game on a tainted call.. Geeeeez.
I am just incredulous at that bad call. And I have no love for the Cowboys.
I don’t like or dislike the Cowboys.
I only like the Saints.
As far as I can see, the rule definitely does apply to what happened.
If I was on a jury, and a judge instructed me about this rule, then told me to watch the video, I would have no choice but to apply the rule.
“Let me be the first to point out on this thread that a very bad call, a reversal on replay, was responsible for this result”
Rules are rules. If you can’t catch it without it hitting the ground it ain’t a catch.
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