Oswlek
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No way to tell what would have happened if the whistle hadn't blown. My real-time reaction at the game was that Danny A had a lot of room to run, but as others have pointed out, Darby reacts to the whistle too.
What I disagree with is the narrative that the officials "lied" or that crediting Amendola with the reception and assesing the penalty against the increasing out-of-control Bills coach was a conscious attempt to rectify the original screw up. The replay/audio does show Amedola caught the ball just after the whistle, but it was very close. Remember - there was no reply. The zebras had to decide what happened based on their recollections alone. Only with the benefit of replay can we see that their judgment was wrong, but to assign to malicious intent to that is an opinion, not a fact.
On the drive home, I made the mistake of listening to Bertrand and DeOssie (the latter of whom is an insufferable, certified card-carrying knuckle-dragging moron). DeOssie's inflammatory intrepretation was that the officiatng crew blatantly "lied" (his word) saying the catch occured before the whistle and that the penalty was another "lie" that the crew arrived at in the interminable conference after the play. What a putz.
Agreed, which is why those claiming that Darby would have tackled him are wrong, IMO. The whistle was so close to the catch that his out-of-position-ness is not entirely explained by him giving up on the play. He still had work to do.
DeOssie is the sole reason why I don't listen to the post-game show. Whoever makes those hires is a ****ing moron.