In every other level of football that was a touchdown. I have no idea why the NFL has decided that if you bobble a ball after your cross the goal line (or fall out of bounds after getting 2 feet in) that there is an additional "process to the catch" but this is just dumb. Why do they have to over complicate everything?
These extra rules are to control outcomes of games......look at Carolina when the receiver caught the ball in back of end zone & his backside landed on the outside if goal line, reviewed it & said it stands as a TD, lol! You can't make up shit like this.......its fully controlled by these crooked refs.
I don't know about hating on the Pats, I think the Pats will go down as the best coach/Qb combo of all time. Pats are an anomaly, & we will never see it again, like Jordan & Phil Jackson at Bulls.
This had to do with crooked refs, & the Pats just happen to be in these controversial games, like the tuck rule game.
Exactly! He had "control" of the ball for .01 seconds and part of his butt cheek hits the endline! James had the ball for at least a full second! The league is a joke!
There is it. Ball in full control, elbow down, ball over goal line. TD.
The rule is just idiotic. I feel like they made the rule more complicated to justify that horrendous call against Dez in the playoffs a few years ago.
This is exactly like when the FBI changed the wording against Hillary from"grossly negligent" to "extremely careless,".......we all know what a catch is, but crooked refs just like some crooked agents, change shit around to fit a narrative.
Exactly! He had "control" of the ball for .01 seconds and part of his butt cheek hits the endline! James had the ball for at least a full second! The league is a joke!
Incredible that the play on left is called a touchdown yet the play on right is not.
Yet the refs missed this one too on the last play!
Jersey is clearly pulled, grabbed before the ball gets there. But the refs of course clearly saw the ball on the ground when it was being bobbled! Joke of a league!
- Bill BarnwellESPN Staff Writer
Under the NFL's definition of a catch, the league was right to take away what looked to be a game-winning Jesse James touchdown catch at the end of Sunday night's Patriots-Steelers game. There are still unanswered questions -- notably, if the call was as easy as the explanations of Alberto Riveron and Tony Corrente have suggested, why it took what felt like 10 minutes to overturn the call -- but everyone on the league side of things seems to agree that the review was processed properly and led to the correct call.
Lmao......haha haha! The league is on the refs side? Really, how can that be? Are you joking.......this is like the feds are on Hillary's side, hence no prosecution.
