Posted on 09/25/2012 10:45:44 AM PDT by djf
Cannot tell from these selective pictures/video what Jennings left leg does. Inconclusive at best...which is why the NFL said there wasn’t enough evidence. They did not confirm the call.
I have no dog in this fight (college football fan) but that call appeared to me to be totally blown by the rule of simultaneous possession that I heard.
The biggest problem is the officials losing control of these games. 24 penalties in both of the Sunday night and Monday night games. This will get worse now.
The sportsbooks reportedly won $150 million on last nights game (some estimate more).
The bad calls changed the outcome and shifted an estimated $500M in bets.
Good thing it was just an accident. With that amount of money sloshing around, people might think those refs, or those who hired and placed the refs, or those who review the refs, or those who have something on those who reviewed ro hired or placed those refs, might have been paid off.
Fortunately, there’s not nearly enough money in that $500M to pay so many people to go against their consciences.
:: whew! ::
>>While both players were still in mid-air, Tates left arm was between Jennings chest and the ball. Tates right arm was outside both Jennings arms, but still on the ball. Possession requires being on the ground and in control. By the time they were on the ground and in control, it was still being held by both men.<<
I respectfully disagree. Having your hand on the ball is not “possession” by any possible definition. When Jennings hit the ground, Tate just had a hand on the ball and was not even CLOSE to possession. Jennings hits the ground on his butt in contact with Tate making him down by contact WITH possession of the ball.
Until Tate wrested it from Jennings well after they were on the ground he did not come close to any definition of “possession.”
I agree Jennings should have batted the ball away and certainly created the situation. But that is like blaming the guy who hits the brakes for the car behind him rear-ending him.
Bad call by the refs.
Not counting the non-interference call and the false interference call.
Home cookin’ is alive with the replacement refs.
Look at your own replay.
Tate has a HAND on the ball. Jennings rolls away (down by contact when his butt hits the turf) with both hands on the ball while Tate has one hand on the ball and other on Jennings’ helmet.
Piss poor call.
YOU watch the replay. BOTH of Tates’ hands reach up and grab the football.
I'll still enjoy watching the athletic play, but I won't bother rooting for one team over another any more.
Refs called it no catch for Johnson, and the NFL later backed them up. Concerning last nights play, the refs called it a TD, and the NFL just now backed them up.
I think NFL’s hands were tied in this one.
If they had reversed any of the rulings, then EVERY game from EVERY weekend would be appealed to them, which would be totally unworkable.
They can’t set that kind of precedent, it would destroy football as we know it. Luv it or hate it...
I watched a Titan's defensive back on Sunday "bat the ball down to the ground" on what was the supposed final play of the Titans-Lions game. That resulted in the batted down pass being caught by the Lions and a TOUCHDOWN which sent the game into overtime.
Your explanation holds as much plausibility as Obama's Foreign Policy.
>>YOU watch the replay. BOTH of Tates’ hands reach up and grab the football.<<
Since when are NFL footballs yellow with a big G on them? Soccer, maybe...
Referee Bill Leavy admitted to blowing calls in that Super Bowl four years after the fact.
I assume you’re saying one of Tate’s hands grabs the defender’s helmet, but I don’t see that.
green bay played horribly. they should’ve played better and they wouldnt be in this position.
The ball hits the fingertips of his fully extended left hand with no sembloence of control. Jennings gets two hands on the ball and secures it to his chest on the way down, and maintains control when his feet land. The Seahawk, still has that left hand stuck in there since Jennings is controlling the ball against his chest.
After Jennings feet touch, he starts to fall forward at which time the Seahawks right hand comes around, grabs the helmet, scoots over the facemask, and then squirms in to where Jennings is still controlling the ball.
I guess we are both seeing what we want to see...
“I guess we are both seeing what we want to see... “
What I see is the same thing the NFL sees.
BOTH of them, except for the RIGHT one, which solids grabs ahold of Jennings RIGHT forearm while BOTH BOTH of Jennings hands are controlling the football...
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