The NFL disagrees with you. They said the hit was legal.
Play the video and you’ll see their official explanation.
You honestly have never, ever read a relase from the NFL officiating managers about a controversial play, have you?
Thanks for the link. I guess I was wrong.
The VP of officials said ‘The receiver can’t block down field before the ball is touched. So the timing is important’.
Maybe we should send him the pic in post 106, post 117, or the video I linked to in post 78 and see what he says about that play, where the receiver obviously starts the ‘block’ before the ball is touched. He just might have a different story.
Seriously, this is why I pretty much gave up watching the NFL years ago. It is easy to see that the ‘legal block’ was early, and because of the timing it was ‘illegal’. But the NFL wont admit it. I either had to quit making fun of pro-wrestling, or stop watching the NFL. I kinda miss watching, but when they won’t admit an obvious mistake, it says a lot about the league.
Come out and say it was a bang-bang play, but Welker should have been called for interference because he was early. Refs are human, and we know we can’t expect them to catch everything at game speeds. But the league admitting they can’t catch it on review is, well, what would you call it? Or do you still not think that Welker hit him before the ball got there?
Was the Welker ‘block’ before the receiver touched the ball? Maybe if the league had access to high-end dvr technology (like most of us have sitting around the house), they could see it like we can.
The other interesting part is the fact that the receiver had a step on the dback. A veteran pick-setter may have noticed that there was no reason to ‘block’ the dback and just let him go.