Stoney's He-Man Steeler Haters NFL Playoff Thread ... No Yinzers allowed

Them's the breaks. Last week you get the critical call, this week you don't.

 

Me either.
A) His belly looked to hit just before the arm holding the ball did, which should have made him down right there.
B) Even if it was the bobble that made it an incompletion, he maintained control "through the process of the catch."
C) The bobble and full possession came after the contact that got him to the ground, so by all rights it probably should have been a touchdown.

It was a bad call, but no one is going to be crying for the Cowboys. The fact we got to see Dez Bryant react like that time he walked in on his mom conducting a transaction with a john only made it better.

 

Wrong. He was never even bobbling the ball. If he had lunged a half-yard longer and broken the plane, it would've been called a TD.

Frankly, I'm not sure how much more of a football move one can make besides taking three steps with the ball in one's hands.

 

Shocked that was overturned. Thought it w

Not being argumentative but would Bryant would just been better off tucking and tumbling at the 3 instead of the 1?

 

Yeah how dare he try to score. He should've just curled up in a fetal position with the ball.

 

Well, at least the Great Satan has now been eliminated.

Another offseason of gnashing of teeth.

 

The rule is you have to maintain control all the way to the ground. If the ball touches the ground as you go down and you lose control, it becomes incomplete at that moment. Whether you regain control or not is irrelevant at that point.

The key to the call is whether he made "a football move," which would mean the catch is complete and the part after that is a run.

 

Not a good couple weeks for NFL officials. Pereira now on TV saying he didn't "lunge enough" to qualify it as a "football move."

That is ridiculous.

 

Pereira is right. Bryant was going to the ground from the moment he made the catch, not running with the ball.

 

You're not evaluating this at all based on what the rules are.

It isn't difficult and it isn't controversial. "Through the process of the catch" means the ball cannot come out. If he loses the ball, he has not completed the process of the catch.

Ten years ago this is a catch. You can blame the overly ticky-tack nature of all rules now, but by current standards it's a no-brainer.

 

He just said with a straight face that he didn't "lunge far enough" and that it didn't matter if he had control of the ball.

WTF?

Talk about making shit up on the fly.