pdangle
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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Personally in my view it was a catch. it drives me crazy at how tick tack the nfl has gotten when it comes to what is a catch and what isn't . i don't care if it touches the ground it should be a catch if the receiver gets their hands on it. But from what i remember when bryant came down with it and the ball touched the ground and it came lose i figured it was going to be challenged. I don't think it was over the goal line, and even if it was he would have to have absolute control of the ball like edelman in yesterdays game.
The entire NFL is ticky tack now. It's the OCD Football league. They really need to sharpen the rules so that they can be called by refs ON the field. There's no longer the same emotional satisfaction for a TD or a catch or a fumble or... everything really, when everything needs verification. What I aslo find a bit funny for everyone who needs everything triple confirmed and measured just so everything is EXACTLY right, is that they blissfully ignore the fact that leading up to that brilliant TD that needed analysis for 7 minutes, the refs made 27 spot ball judgement calls the entire way down the field! It's only the losers that cry foul of refs usually, they whine weeks afterwards, but the fact is you need to be able to overcome a few bad calls, and hopefully (over 200(?) or so judgement calls per game) they even up. It's really just better for the game. But I digress from OP, how can u help the refs make right calls? The best rule change the NFL made IMO in last few years was the allowing pushing out bounds a receiver in air for a catch. No more guessing did ref think he was going to come down in bounds or out... who knows. Now its, his feet are in or he is out. They need to do more judgement refinements like this all the way down the line. Re-work the catch next. The fumble after that. Make it as black and white and logical and emotional satisfying as humanly possible so the any ref can get it right 95% in heat of the game, and live with it. And if it's impossible to make it easy to get it right, lessen the impact on the game. In Bryant play I think the "correct" call was made, but the rule itself is botched and will ultimately end in fan satisfaction failure in cases such as these.