For all you Freepers who may have the inclination to post some remark about hating the NFL .... don't bother. Your comment is not necessary.. This is merely about football, football officiating, and not politics.
Thanks in advance.
What 19 said.
And remember, Goodell works for Kraft. Patriots will always have the advantage under Goodell.
Very tough break for the Steelers, but reversing the call from touchdown to incomplete pass was correct.
Even the announcers initially got it wrong and were madly backpedaling while the play was being reviewed. The officials reviewing the play took a long time just to make sure they made the right decision on the review because it was potentially the game deciding play. Tough break, but the pass was incomplete.
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Every “football move” is unique, thus this is nonsense. Stop crying.
Control of the ball plus two feet inbounds defines a catch. There is nothing else, or we would have endless official reviews (if we don’t already).
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And why should anyone care about what goes on in the Nutskell Foozbell League?
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Thu what??? The NFL??? Oh, yeah, I quit watching that set of initials a few years ago. Their crap with the national anthem just went to prove why I stopped.
Renfro was in bounds.
I thought the player should have been down at the goal line because he was down and the ball had not broken the plane. But I guess that doesn’t matter on a pass.
Either way, the last play of that drive was a dumb, ego centered play by Ben. The smart play would have been to passed off towards the sidelines to at least give them the field goal.
All in all, I was ready to shoot the Pats secondary. Their defense sucked.
Chit call......how many TD’s
have been called this year when a receiver races down the sideline and he reaches out and the ball touches the top of the pylon.....doesn’t matter after the pylon’s been touched if he maintain s control?...he lands out of bounds the ball is considered in control?
I’m a Cowboys fan, but you guys was robbed.
That was a catch.
The NFL mystique is gone.
Time for a new league.
There was an argument about this a couple years back. Reaching out is not a football move.
Tough game to lose, but they weren't robbed. Rules are rules. You don't become a runner until you maintain the catch to the ground. It is clear. You can't fault the player, but his lunge instead of becoming a runner is what caused that to be overturned.
With a 69 yard reception at that point of the game, the Patriots should not have won. But they did.
You are entitled to your opinion and to continue watching the bread and circus that the NFL has become. I've decided to tune out so long as disrespecting our flag and nation is tolerated on the field. President Trump and the path of our nation is more important to me right now than a ball game.
It's a shame too because I've been a Patriots fan since the days they were the joke of the NFL. They had a lot of awful seasons leading up to the mid 1990s. When Tom Brady and Bill Belichick came on the scene during the early 2000s, they became a lot of fun to watch.
But no longer. I admit to checking the standings and scores online to see how they are doing but I take no more joy in watching them play the actual games.
That all said, I'd be the first to tell you that the Patriots have gotten a lot of breaks over the years during the Brady era starting with that infamous "tuck rule" ruling during the first Super Bowl run in 2001. All the bounces and favorable rulings seem to go their way more often than not during the Brady era.
(Last I checked, posters don't get to make the rules about what can be posted to their threads here on FR. It is a political forum after all. There are many non-political outlets that can be used for NFL discussions.)
Patriots fan here, that was definitely a touchdown for the Steelers.
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Who cares? You’re supposed to be boycotting the Felon League.
The main issue is that it was another “Tom Brady” moment.
What I mean by that is with two minutes left and the score close, Brady and the Patriots marched down the filed for a touchdown to take the lead and left the Steelers :59 seconds to counter.
In the end this is not the place the Steelers needed to be in.
The call against the Steelers, looked like he had possesion/control of the ball. The “football move” was in fact legal, the question is whether the “flick of the wrist” when the ball hit the ground was a loss of control as an extension of the reception. I don’t think it was.
That said...the ball should have been spotted at the 1 yard line to reflect the completed pass.