To me, that looks like a great jump on the snap - not offsides.
Look at the orange line. Ware comes up, but not over the line, the instant the ball is snapped. He's reading cues off the head movement of the center - probably reading tendencies he saw on film. The ball is moving backwards as Ware's head is crossing the orange line. Looks like a great play to me.
Yea, he went off the Center's head movement, not the snap of the ball. It was pretty much perfect timing on him Part (when he actually crosses the line), but I could see how an official would call that jumping. So, to me it was more iffy than bad.
Some of the calls that were bad in that game (off the top of my head):
Witten getting away with offensive pass interference (pushing off). I'm one of those guys who thinks you should let them play to some extent, and I don't care about a little contact, but that call went against what I've seen from officials lately. They've called two offensive PI's on Randy Moss for pushing off in recent weeks, and he created much less contact than Witten during one of those instances. So, if you're going to call it on Randy, you've got to call it on Witten, especially since Witten actually pushed off and extended his arm to do so.
The defensive PI call on the Packers probably shouldn't have been made since they tangled legs, and the ball might have been slightly overthrown. I'd say that call was closer than Witten's none call for offensive PI though.
This crew again had at least three bad spots that I noticed during live action, and sometimes their spots are off by as much as two yards....that is completely unacceptable. They were almost going to spot the Cowboys back at something like the 43 when the ball was supposed to be on the 31? I'm glad the head official went back to his booth in order to get it right, but he never should have had to.
Al Harris was completely worked by that deficient crew.
First, TO was never going backward, he was going sideways, and Harris had his arm between TO's body and the ball from the start. When Harris ripped the ball out TO was still inbounds, and Harris secured control before he also went out of bounds. What makes this even more unreal is the fact that one official called it right, but allowed himself to be overruled by the other official, especially since he was in better position.
This was a great play on Harris' part by the way. Really, it brought back memories of Tedy Bruschi taking the ball away from Edgerrin James in that classic playoff beatdown of the Indy Colts.
