First, you say it was a flop. That is your opinion. That isn't fact. Or at least not a fact you have proven.
It’s definitely a fact. You can tell by the way his head snapped back after the so-called “push.” You see this happen in the NBA all the time.
Second, are you saying that no defender has ever flopped on a legitimate OPI play? You are going to tell me that in the history of the NFL, a player has never flopped on a legitimate penalty and they only do it on non-existing penalties? If this is the best you have, I want to thank you for proving my point it is irrelevant.
That’s a nice straw man argument you’ve got going for yourself there.
Third, He was in position to make a play on the ball. He was there. The contact made him fall to the ground. The difference between that contact being good or making it bad was that Goodwin pushed off.
No, he most clearly wasn’t in position to make a play on the ball. The only way he would have been in a position to make a play on the ball is either…
A) By playing off coverage instead of press and, thus, having the ability to drive on the ball.
B) By taking outside leverage against Godwin if he’s in press (assuming the ball still goes to the outside).
He had neither going for him and was in a backpedal by the time Godwin turned for the ball. He’d have to have defied the laws of physics to have a chance of making a play on the ball. Want to know how you should be able to tell he didn’t have a chance on the ball? Because you can’t tell me how that would have been possible. You just keep saying, “he had a chance,” with absolutely nothing to back it up.
Fourth, a large percentage of the PI calls are players who physically probably impossible for victim of PI to actually catch the ball. But they are in the area and the perpetrator makes contact that is illegal. How many times have we seen a bomb into the end zone that a receiver probably would never had a chance to get and they draw the PI because the receiver is in the area where the ball is thrown?
Sure… if the contact by itself is enough to drive the defender to the ground. In this case, the DB had to visibly flop because it wasn’t and an OPI call was his only shot on the play
By your standards, a large percentage of the PI calls every year are really not PI calls.
Uhhh… they’re not. Refs blow DPI and OPI calls all the time. It happens every single game.
Fifth, tell me who is your optometrist is because I want to avoid going to him because you want me to go to a good one. Not the one you use.
This leads me to believe that you’re probably blind, then. Either that, or the dude you hired a few weeks back in assless chaps and S&M gear to choke you gouged your eyes out before he stole everything out of your wallet.
Sixth, funny I always thought when a receiver pushes a defender and extends his arm it is a push off. I would love to hear what you classify as a push off.
Usually, it’s when the arm fully extends in a way that obviously knocks the DB to the ground without the DB having to flop in order to sell it. You’ve been watching football for… how long… now, and you don’t this?
Seventh, yes you would have and you know it. And it is irrelevant to whether it was OPI. Never said it was. But unlike you, I don't claim irrelevant information is relevant to the discussion.
Is there a planet or some sort of alternate dimension in which this statement makes a lick of sense?
