The Natural
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all time great play (throw + catch), robbed by bozo refs.
Thanks man....Here's a better one. Same play, but with a happy ending (... that's what Robert Kraft said).
....if that's all he did, it would have been 1st N goal. We probably score after.Just hang onto the ball moron.
If you watch the replay from the angle where Dez and the defender are coming at the camera, the knee of Dez collides with the defender's leg.
The subsequent going to the ground then requires Dez hang onto the ball when it touches the ground. The ball moved - clearly shown in the video - thus he did not control the ball to the ground.
This site has argued against the rules since the play happened. This site has been wrong. I hated the results, but the truth is this was not a catch. You cannot argue the continuation because he got feet down. Those two steps were broken down as this. First step begins the football move. Second step is the collision, sending Dez toward the ground. His push-off to the endzone does not negate the continuation rule. Once continuation was in play, the ball hitting the ground and moving out of his cradled arm and control makes this not a catch.
It is there on the video.
The 2014 season was Tony Romo's best- and last- chance at a Super Bowl. Had the Cowboys won at Green Bay they would have faced the Seahawks in the NFC Championship; a team they already defeated in Seattle earlier that season.
The loss still haunts me. That Cowboys team was on a hot streak (five wins in a row). And if you watch the entire game again, they outplayed Green Bay on their home turf. A forgotten play in that game was a DeMarco Murray fumble on a long run that would have at least set Dallas up in the redzone. That and the Dez non-catch means the Cowboys should have had 35 points on the board and won easily instead of losing 26-21.
What the? Am I in bizarro CowboysZone?
yes and this pic also shows martin about to fall on his face lol which allows pepper to get to murray from behind.Forgotten play? People never cease to mention that play. What they forget is that we were only up 14-10 at that point and there was 11:00 to go in the 3rd. GB got a FG from it to cut it to 14-13. We would later go up 21-13 so it wasn't all that terrible. On the play itself, it's doubtful Murray would have scored with the safety in center field.
The absurd NFL catch rule deemed it an incompletion, I was definitely upset by it but I'm over it now.
Dez caught it for sure. What’s not for sure is believing that avg Dallas defense could have stopped Aaron Rodgers with 4 min left on the clock. Assuming we score a TD there, it’s 28-26. All Rodgers has to do is get them in position for a FG. Wish we could have seen that play out. Maybe we win- but it was no guarantee.
7 years later......catch or no catch? Looking back, that game/loss stayed with me for a while. There was no doubt in my mind, beat the Packers, we're going to the Super Bowl. Still believe it.......
Even by the rule at the time it was a catch. Three steps and an arm. Plenty of "football move".
Here is a link to another thread where the Dez catch - no catch debate was beaten to death. Maybe read this instead of typing out the same arguments since nobody is changing their minds.
https://cowboyszone.com/threads/mccarthy-says-dez-didn’t-catch-it.451005/
Okay, Tinfoil. Here is where you did exactly what I said as you quoted my post. You don't know the rule. At that time, 3 steps was nowhere in the rule nor did it matter because once the Going to the Ground" rule was applied, none of that other catch stuff matters, except if he executed a proper lunge, and he has to maintain possession of the ball thru contacting the ground while the ball also doesn't touch the ground. If you also paid attention to what Steratore and the rest said about the overturn, they said that upon replay they clearly saw the ball touch the ground before it came loose and was repossessed, meaning it wasn't ruled it had touched by the ref. The ref on the field was shielded from seeing the ball touch the ground which is clearly seen on the below reverse angle picture. Replay had this too because I took this from my own video. Again, replay did its job.
And football move is a judgement call, just like applying the going to the ground rule. If people don't deem a lunge "enough" of one then it didn't meet the judgement standard and wasn't one. Same with holding or PI or roughing the passer. It's clear that was not like a proper lunge where someone is able to gather themselves and leap (which replay folks also said), especially since Dez' 3rd step was a slip on the turf. He was going down the entire time and he didn't execute a lunge to break that momentum so it's one motion and you gotta keep the ball off the ground and maintain possession. He didn't. This ain't rocket science unless you HAVE to see it the other way to get what you want. Life's not like that though. Either deal with reality or live in safe fantasyland. I choose the former.
7 years later......catch or no catch? Looking back, that game/loss stayed with me for a while. There was no doubt in my mind, beat the Packers, we're going to the Super Bowl. Still believe it.......