Aikman is right, the penalty should be severe

[Rogah]

Still waiting for someone - anyone - to answer my hypothetical question.

Guess that's a wait that will never end.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Wait that guy is an adult ?

Shut the front door.

 

[khiladi]

So Aikman was wrong or right in saying it wasn't a catch ? No outrage about Aikman saying it wasn't a catch...but playing both sides does not work.

You made it more confusing...because you are smack talking...I am asking someone that is not you a question. Thanks for your response though.

Aikman actually said it was a catch at first and said when it happened he said he didn't even think for a minute that it was not a catch. These are his exact words:

When it happened I did not think for a minute it was not a catch. When it happened, I’m thinking it is an unbelievable catch. Then when we went to break, [Fox rules analyst] Mike Pereira said he thought the call was going to be overruled. I said, “Really? It looks to me like if anything is changed to the call it will be ruled a touchdown.” They ruled it the way Mike saw it. I’m not going to argue with Mike. After the game you hear from all sorts of people about the call and 99 percent of my friends who texted me are just fans and most don’t know the rules. But I did hear from some coaches and that got my attention. And they felt it was a poor call.

The question becomes about the whole football act and that’s why it ultimately was not a catch. If you said Dez made a football move, then it would have been down by contact. Since it was through the process of the catch when the ball was bobbled, then it was incomplete. I trust Mike Pereira and I trust the New York office had the ability to communicate with [referee Gene] Steratore. But I think in general there are way too many discrepancies in our rule book. I have felt for years they should blow the whole thing up and start over and make it simpler. What is a football act? There are just all kind of different exceptions and not just on catches but the rules in general.

This is nothing like Spygate and Aikman pretty much admits that the ruling of what defines a 'football catch' is ambiguous AFTER he spoke with Mike Pereira.

In Spygate, he gives his rationale specifically even 8 years after the fact saying that it was a clear competitive advantage unlike Bountygate and so forth.

So Aikman's expert opinion includes a lot of reasoning.