The NFL completion rules

[drt7891]

Are absolute horseshit. And I'm pulling for Green Bay here. Bryant absolutely got robbed on a spectacular catch.

 

[StatesboroBlues]

Looked like he had possession and then extended it to try and get the TD...by the rules that is not a football move I guess.

"Eat a Peach"

 

[thatsbaseball]

The NFL just lowered their credibility another notch....if that`s possible.

 

[drt7891]

And it just cost Dallas the game.

No one should ever have to lose a game like that.

 

[LawDawg97]

Terrible overturn. The rule about making a football move

Are absolute horseshit. And I'm pulling for Green Bay here. Bryant absolutely got robbed on a spectacular catch.

Should be flexible enough to allow a catch like that. Hell, he still came up with it after it popped in the air when he hit the ground. The fact that he's in the endzone with the ball after a catch like that should allow it to stand.

 

[aTotal360]

Except the Cowboys.

 

[Pedro.sixpack]

I hate the Cowboys but wow, how is that not a catch? That is terrible

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Could not happen to a better team.

...That is all!

 

[Chesusdog]

Are absolute horseshit. And I'm pulling for Green Bay here. Bryant absolutely got robbed on a spectacular catch.

Almost as bad as the call against Calvin Johnson from a year or two ago.

Actually after going back and watching this video, Calvin Johnson's catch getting overturned was much, much worse.

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d81a77070/Controversial-call-on-Megatron-non-TD

 

[121Josey]

Terrible call. The ball is allowed to hit the ground during a catch if it is secured prior to hitting the ground. After the ball is jarred loose, Bryant catches the ball again.

 

[Shmuley]

NFL=WWE

 

[57stratdawg]

That wasnt a terrible call, Bryant has to basically get up with the football and maintain complete possession throughout contact the the ground. He clearly did not.

There re was a similar call with a Calvin Johnson TD a couple years back where the exact same call was made.

 

[thatsbaseball]

Question, Would that have been a catch at the college level ?

 

[121Josey]

There re was a similar call with a Calvin Johnson TD a couple years back where the exact same inexplicable call was made.

I fixed it for you.

I disagree on the complete possession part.

"If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball throughout the process of contacting the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete."

I'll let you fix the part about three steps and a dive as being a football move.**

 

[drt7891]

100% a catch in college.

 

[8dog]

No. Im pretty sure the ncaa rule mirrors the nfl rule

It was the right call. Have to maintain controp to the ground. Its been around a while at this point.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Good reversal.

...

After watching it later, from other views.

 

[57stratdawg]

Falling isn't a football move, neither is extending the ball.

That call gets made all the time on the sideline. A WR catches a ball, gets two feet down, falls down, and loses the ball after he hits the ground. That is incomplete, just like Dez's play today.

 

[121Josey]

If only Bryant would have stretched "all the way" out...

 

[121Josey]

Moving the ball from your right hand to left hand and extending the ball (with one hand, I might add -) is a football move. Sorry.

I'm trying to remember a similar play on the sideline. But I come up with nothing. Usually the receiver is out of bounds when he hits the ground and bobbles the ball, if that's what you mean. Bryant was not at any point out of bounds.

 

[Irondawg]

I think extending the ball is a football move, just like a running back. He catches teh ball against his shoulder with two hands and then take one and clearly controls it to extend it to attempt to get a TD and the ground causes it to jar loose.

I'm not well versed enough to really argue how the NFL rule is written but that's a catch all day to me.

 

[Bulldogg31]

If it's mostly a catch AND looks really cool then it's a catch.

That should be the rule.

 

[57stratdawg]

A football move is changing direction to make a S miss, or darting towards the sideline. If Bryant had caught the ball, taken a few steps, then changed directions toward the sideline and dove out of bounds AND THEN lost the ball when he hit the ground it would be a catch.

 

[thatsbaseball]

So a guy who looks like a member of the Gambino family and is on the NFL payroll defends a bad call made by an NFL ref in a playoff game by telling me I didn`t see what I thought I saw. K

 

[EurekaDog]

One of the dumbest, useless, illogical rules in the NFL.

Possession is possession Whether you just get two-feet down and fall out of bounds, catch a pass and immediately fall down, or catch a pass and stumble five yards downfield before falling... possession is possession. To say DB had possession, but then lost possession due to all coming loose due to hitting the ground is illogical.

A rule is a rule, but this ruler causes more debate than any other rule I know.

 

[57stratdawg]

There is a player safety component to the rule though. A WR is considered "defenseless" until he makes a football move when he then becomes a runner. The message to WR was "we won't let you hit, but you have to get up with the football".

I think it is here to stay.