Had you actually watched the WHOLE video, the it's PLAINLY clear that his heel comes down out of bounds. And it was the CORRECT call, despite your claims to the contrary. Watch from 27 seconds to the end of the video. Plain as day that his right heel comes down out of bounds.
I watched the whole video: it isn't clear because it seems that his heel hit after his feet had already left the field.
The convention clearly followed when this comes up explicitly for discussion is
toe in-->heel out is incomplete. This is what Al/Chris said last night before the ruling came in, this is what comes up all over the internet for years, with articles explicitly addressing it. That was the whole point of the reddit thread that you somehow misinterpreted (a pattern with you, as you pulled this crap with the team timeout rule two weeks ago).
From
the article:
The NFL has confirmed via email that the official rule book merely says that a player must get two feet in bounds, with no elaboration or explanation regarding the ability of a player to make a catch while only ever getting a toe or the top of the foot down. But the league interprets the rule to mean that a toe is a foot, as long as the toe is dragged. If in the act of dragging the toe the foot comes down and any portion of it is out of bounds, a catch was not made.
For what you are advocating to be true, you basically would have to be endorsing some kind of conspiracy to actively mislead the public about the rule, for multiple years. Pretty unlikely. T
he NFL, when explicitly asked about it via email said that toe-in/heel-out is incomplete. It was unambiguous.
In terms of tracking down “Approved Ruling 15.79” , maybe someone got the detail of the particular ruling number, and maybe even its source, wrong, but
that is to entirely miss the larger point. The actual ruling (regardless of its source) has actually been consistently applied and rendered when the NFL is giving its considered opinion, like when it is explicitly asked about it outside of the exigencies of game conditions by reporter. Or when coach Schiano asks them about it for clarification and he explains that clarification in a press conference. Or when refs discuss it in an
online forum 3 years ago. It is crystal clear, all the rest is pedantry.
As I pointed out, the Reddit article actually supports the catch if you read far enough down.
Actually, as the original poster there explicitly says, the AR he posted doesn't actually bear on this. They cite an AR that has to do with toe dragging, not toe in then heel out rulings. Here's yet another reddit thread discusses the toe-then-heel as common knowledge (from 2 years ago).
Why does a toe in bounds count but not a heel first? • /r/nfl
Even to the point of making fun of people who don't know this. I wouldn't go that far, but the point is there.
I'm not sure if you care at this point what is true, versus just trying to imitate a lawyer and score petty points, but I am most interested in the truth about the call. While tracking down the written source turns out to be a nontrivial exercise in stamp collecting, great for someone with
a future in HR, your case is weak because all the official channels say the same thing: toe-in heel-out is incomplete.
