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Some tweets from Dallas fan Skip Bayless:
Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 1h 1 hour ago
NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Absolute robbery. He was just trying to slam the ball across the goal line.Skip Bayless
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That’s it. Crime of the Century.Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 56m 56 minutes ago
Now that lucky Rodgers has the refs and the NFL gods on his side.Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 55m 55 minutes ago
I just might have to throw up.Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 53m 53 minutes ago
Dez Bryant not only caught the ball and made a football play, he came very close to slamming the ball on the goal line for a TD. ROBBERY!Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 48m 48 minutes ago
Howie Long gets it. Dez was EXTENDING FOR THE GOAL LINE.Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 45m 45 minutes ago
Odell Beckham Jr. gets it. HE thought it was a catch.Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · 29m 29 minutes ago
Congrats, Packer fans. You just benefitted from one of the worst replay decisions in NFL playoff history, right there with the Tuck Rule.And his thoughts on last week’s picked up flag?
Skip Bayless @RealSkipBayless · Jan 6
OK! OK! Cowboys got away with couple of things vs Det. So they’re supposed to forfeit at GBay? NO! THEY’RE PLAYING. DEAL WITH IT.Dunno if this GIF will work, but its the one LA posted at the herd board.
LA thought it shows a catch. Because dez is “reaching out” for the endzone.I think it shows a no catch. Cause to me theres no “reaching out for the endzone” Exception
to the Rules. He didnt demonstrate control. He shouldnt have reached out if he
was gonna bobble it by reaching out. He shoulda just tucked it.
If I call it a catch, then I can enjoy Dallas getting jobbed. 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_115N5BTKw
Agamemnon
Completed catch origins
By Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/15382/morning-ram-blings-completed-catch-origins
Much of the discussion coming out of the NFL divisional playoff rounds this morning will center on the fourth-and-2 catch and subsequent non-catch by Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant in the closing moments of their loss to the Green Bay Packers.
For the few who might have missed it, the ruling on the field was that Bryant made the catch and was down at the 1-yard line. But Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy challenged the ruling with the idea that Bryant did not control the ball all the way through his landing on the ground. Indeed, the replay showed the ball hitting the ground as Bryant came down.
A huge play was overturned and the Packers ran out the clock to seal the win.
Of course, there was immediately plenty of outrage about the call and whether you agree with it or not, the debate isn’t so much about the call as it is the rule. Our resident officiating expert is NFL Nation columnist Kevin Seifert, who immediately filed some thoughts on the call.
No matter what side of the fence you fall on that debate, there’s no doubt that it will bring plenty of scrutiny to a rule that actually dates to the St. Louis Rams’ run to the Super Bowl XXXIV championship back in 1999-2000.
In that NFC Championship Game, the Rams were on the ropes against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As Tampa tried to drive for the potential winning points, an apparent 13-yard completion to receiver Bert Emanuel would have given the Bucs a first down at the Rams’ 22. But a review came down from the replay booth and it was determined that the nose of the ball touched the ground.
The call was overturned and the Bucs never got closer to the end zone as the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl. After the season, the NFL took steps to clarify what constitutes a catch, which has since been deemed the “Bert Emanuel rule.”
There have been plenty of other questionable calls similar to that play since, namely the Calvin Johnson catch against Chicago that was changed to an incompletion in 2010.
Some will argue that the Cowboys were the victims of karma for benefiting from a call last week against Detroit. Either way, it’s probably wise to expect the debate on what constitutes a catch to begin anew.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Agamemnon wrote:</div>
Completed catch originsBy Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/15382/morning-ram-blings-completed-catch-origins
Much of the discussion coming out of the NFL divisional playoff rounds this morning will center on the fourth-and-2 catch and subsequent non-catch by Dallas Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant in the closing moments of their loss to the Green Bay Packers.
For the few who might have missed it, the ruling on the field was that Bryant made the catch and was down at the 1-yard line. But Green Bay coach Mike McCarthy challenged the ruling with the idea that Bryant did not control the ball all the way through his landing on the ground. Indeed, the replay showed the ball hitting the ground as Bryant came down.
A huge play was overturned and the Packers ran out the clock to seal the win.
Of course, there was immediately plenty of outrage about the call and whether you agree with it or not, the debate isn’t so much about the call as it is the rule. Our resident officiating expert is NFL Nation columnist Kevin Seifert, who immediately filed some thoughts on the call.
No matter what side of the fence you fall on that debate, there’s no doubt that it will bring plenty of scrutiny to a rule that actually dates to the St. Louis Rams’ run to the Super Bowl XXXIV championship back in 1999-2000.
In that NFC Championship Game, the Rams were on the ropes against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. As Tampa tried to drive for the potential winning points, an apparent 13-yard completion to receiver Bert Emanuel would have given the Bucs a first down at the Rams’ 22. But a review came down from the replay booth and it was determined that the nose of the ball touched the ground.
The call was overturned and the Bucs never got closer to the end zone as the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl. After the season, the NFL took steps to clarify what constitutes a catch, which has since been deemed the “Bert Emanuel rule.”
There have been plenty of other questionable calls similar to that play since, namely the Calvin Johnson catch against Chicago that was changed to an incompletion in 2010.
Some will argue that the Cowboys were the victims of karma for benefiting from a call last week against Detroit. Either way, it’s probably wise to expect the debate on what constitutes a catch to begin anew.
I think Nick’s confused. I don’t think that ruling has anything to do with the Bert Emmanuel incompletion. That play led to a rule that the ball could touch the ground as long as the receiver had control of the ball, as well. That’s not this rule.
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