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I posted the NFL Rulebook earlier this year, you should refer to it, and use it and not your opinion on how a play should be called.

 

They showed one angle where he had the ball by the point in one hand...as his hand was moving the ball wasn't it then got knocked out...he had feet down....that is a catch in the EZ as well as on the field of play....but it was the type of play that most likely however called wouldn't get overturned...it was that close...and I found the video on NFL.com but they don't have the same angle of the play that shows the ball securely in his one hand

Yep, it was inconclusive, thus the ref saying the call stands rather than being confirmed.

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Yeah, he never controlled it. I was sure that one was coming off the board. You can freeze frame anything to make it look like control. Far less control than Gresham's TD last week (that got reversed)

 

By rule, you have to control it going to the ground. Gresham didn't do that. This doesn't matter in Jennings case...what mattered is if he controlled it at the end and got two feet down (which I'm not sure he did).

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One of the absolute beauties of FF message boards is that you get some people who don't know #### about football and yet feel the need to announce it to the world with authority.

Take that sig line off. It is sooooo offensive. Mostly to the movie. Proven time and time again, you sir, are a jackass. Period.

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I posted the NFL Rulebook earlier this year, you should refer to it, and use it and not your opinion on how a play should be called.

 

They showed one angle where he had the ball by the point in one hand...as his hand was moving the ball wasn't it then got knocked out...he had feet down....that is a catch in the EZ as well as on the field of play....but it was the type of play that most likely however called wouldn't get overturned...it was that close...and I found the video on NFL.com but they don't have the same angle of the play that shows the ball securely in his one hand

:wacko: Nope. Not a TD. In super slow motion, it looks like he MIGHT have had a split second of control. But in live speed, he juggled it and then it was knocked out of his hand. You can make anything look like possession if you go slow enough. That was not a catch. Not a TD.

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One of the absolute beauties of FF message boards is that you get some people who don't know #### about football and yet feel the need to announce it to the world with authority.

Not sure if this was targeted at me, but probably would have been appropriate. I plead ignorance here. Enlighten me. Admittedly, I've never picked up (nor read) an NFL rulebook, thus cannot recite the official "definition of a catch". But I've watched and enjoyed football for decades, and would have thought (and have always assumed) that one of the pre-requisites would be that the receiver catch and demonstrate control of the football while in bounds, to constitute a catch. In this case (the Jennings TD), I guess the only thing in question is "control". I didn't think he ever established control, looked to me like he was still attempting to while going out of the EZ as the defender simultaneously punched the ball out. I never saw control. Would be glad to hear what I'm missing, am interested.

 

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:wacko: Nope. Not a TD. In super slow motion, it looks like he MIGHT have had a split second of control. But in live speed, he juggled it and then it was knocked out of his hand. You can make anything look like possession if you go slow enough. That was not a catch. Not a TD.

hence why the call stayed as is...you know, a catch for a TD :tup:

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By rule, you have to control it going to the ground. Gresham didn't do that. This doesn't matter in Jennings case...what mattered is if he controlled it at the end and got two feet down (which I'm not sure he did).

 

Correct...because Jennings never went to the ground. Had he fallen or been tripped up, that play is ruled incomplete.

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Not sure why you'd think it was.

 

Wasn't sure, really didn't matter. But I was pretty sure that there were others in the thread here who were more knowledgable than me who could straighten me out. I interpreted the final ruling that the play stands (they didn't say "confirmed" did they?) meant that they didn't have enough to say that he didn't get control at some point. Ruling would have probably stood no matter how it was ruled on the field.

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I think Jennings TD was legit. The illegal touch after 5 yards was very suspect. It didnt impede the route and I am sure you see it on a lot of snaps in the the nfl. That was a hugh blow to the Giants

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