Mark12
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Gronkoswki's obvious TD? It would have saved us 2 mins and that horrific fail of an onside kick attempt.
This was huge.
I wanted to know why he didn't challenge the placement of the ball where Gronk reached well over the 1st down marker before going out of bounds.. That really hurt..
But Brady used all the time until there was zero secs to the next play. Im sure they had time to review upstairs and it clearly shows it was a TD.
It was a screwup by the coaching staff. They should have challenged it immediately.
It wasn't a screwup. It wasn't obvious. If BB thought it was he would have challenged. It would be worse if we challenged and lost a T.O
Brady took his time I assume to give us a chance at a replay.
There was nothing "obvious" about it, especially when you consider that the coach was about 40 yards away looking at it from a straight-on angle, instead of from the goal line.Gronkoswki's obvious TD? It would have saved us 2 mins and that horrific fail of an onside kick attempt.
This was huge.
How would stopping the clock rather than confusedly trying to get off a play and watching far too much time tick off the clock have been a "lost" timeout?
The refs should do their best to call the plays as they see 'em. They should not say "well, I don't think it was a TD but I'm going to call it a TD so it can go to replay." The initial ruling on the field is very important because many replays are not conclusive. They should never deliberately err to one side.If the rule is that only TD's can be automatically challenged, it's the refs fault for not ruling borderline calls TD so that they can look at it.
If the rule is that only TD's can be automatically challenged, it's the refs fault for not ruling borderline calls TD so that they can look at it.
The refs should do their best to call the plays as they see 'em. They should not say "well, I don't think it was a TD but I'm going to call it a TD so it can go to replay."
I just told you what I believe happened in that situation.
It was a tough situation. Not every challenge is won and BB felt we needed all our timeouts.
We took time to get the play off because we were waiting for a replay.
My opinion.
It's not as if we didn't get the ball back. Not challenging was not the nail in the coffin. The onside was.