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An excerpt from Blandino's video "Explaining the Calvin Johnson Rule." This is NOT someone describing how "going to the ground" subordinates the catch process. It's someone describing how the completion of the catch process determines whether a player who is going to the ground has to maintain possession when he hits the ground. It's all about the catch process.
"We've worked really hard to educate people in terms of the catch process. It seems like we're talking about a Calvin Johnson play every season but I guess when you catch as many passes as he does, it's bound to happen.
1:43 Let's look at the Week 1 play from the Minnesota-Detroit game where Calvin is going to the ground in the process of making the catch.
The process of the catch is a three-part process: control, two feet down, and then have the ball long enough to perform an act common to the game. If you can perform all three parts in that order, you have a catch. If not, and you're going to the ground, you must control the ball when you hit the ground.
2:09 Watch what happens when Calvin hits the ground. The ball comes loose. He did not have both feet down prior to reaching for the goal line, so this is all one process. This is an incomplete pass."
Why would it matter that he did not have both feet down prior to the reach, if the reach wouldn't have mattered anyway?
Obviously, the reach mattered.
Blandino says you gotta have control, two feet down, and an act common to the game. It's a three-part process, and it has to be in that order. Then he explains that Johnson was going to the ground while still in that process, because he didn't perform the steps in the correct order. He hasn't completed it. He needed to get two feet down before the act common to the game, which was the reach.
He doesn't say Johnson needed to be upright.
He doesn't say Johnson needed to gather himself.
He never uses the word "lunge," even once.
He never mentions the catch process as being "trumped" or subordinated by Johnson's fall. In fact, just the opposite. He's analyzing Johnson's actions all through the fall, to see whether he completes the three-part process.
This is cut and dried.
"We've worked really hard to educate people in terms of the catch process. It seems like we're talking about a Calvin Johnson play every season but I guess when you catch as many passes as he does, it's bound to happen.
1:43 Let's look at the Week 1 play from the Minnesota-Detroit game where Calvin is going to the ground in the process of making the catch.
The process of the catch is a three-part process: control, two feet down, and then have the ball long enough to perform an act common to the game. If you can perform all three parts in that order, you have a catch. If not, and you're going to the ground, you must control the ball when you hit the ground.
2:09 Watch what happens when Calvin hits the ground. The ball comes loose. He did not have both feet down prior to reaching for the goal line, so this is all one process. This is an incomplete pass."
Why would it matter that he did not have both feet down prior to the reach, if the reach wouldn't have mattered anyway?
Obviously, the reach mattered.
Blandino says you gotta have control, two feet down, and an act common to the game. It's a three-part process, and it has to be in that order. Then he explains that Johnson was going to the ground while still in that process, because he didn't perform the steps in the correct order. He hasn't completed it. He needed to get two feet down before the act common to the game, which was the reach.
He doesn't say Johnson needed to be upright.
He doesn't say Johnson needed to gather himself.
He never uses the word "lunge," even once.
He never mentions the catch process as being "trumped" or subordinated by Johnson's fall. In fact, just the opposite. He's analyzing Johnson's actions all through the fall, to see whether he completes the three-part process.
This is cut and dried.
