Dez catch

[Swagger]

Appreciate this has been talked about many times before but having watched it again just now it must go down as one of the worst reversals I have ever seen.

Surely when Dez touched the ground with his right elbow then he's down having completed the process of a catch (he had made a football move by taking 2-3 steps after securing the ball).

In any event, I haven't seen any clear and unequivocal footage of the ball touching the ground at any point - part of his arm looked to be under the ball when he went to ground so worst case scenario he has caught the ball in the end zone as Shields didn't mark him down by contact.

People say well Rodgers would have just marched down the field any way - great let's see him do it and it's irrelevant to the above call.

It's still annoying all these years on!

 

[Staubacher]

Our best chance to make the NFCCG and probably the SB in the last 29 years. And of all people to win the challenge - the guy who now can't successfully do challenges or manage the clock for the Cowboys.

 

[Ranching]

Let's talk about Jackie Smith's drop, instead.

 

[Jarntt]

It was the correct call with the rules that were in place at that time.

 

[Jarntt]

Let's talk about Jackie Smith's drop, instead.

That one Broke my little at the time Cowboys fan heart

 

[fivetwos]

What I want to know is why Romo threw a low percentage bomb on 4th and 1 when they needed to run off more clock before scoring.

That’s never mentioned.

Burn another two minutes, make GB use their TOs, and just maybe….maybe…you stop Rodgers from getting a FG.

Edit….in real time I thought it would be overturned. His arm wasn’t under the ball, although that didn’t stop me from heaving my phone across the room and smashing it once the ruling came down lol.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Appreciate this has been talked about many times before but having watched it again just now it must go down as one of the worst reversals I have ever seen.

Surely when Dez touched the ground with his right elbow then he's down having completed the process of a catch (he had made a football move by taking 2-3 steps after securing the ball).

In any event, I haven't seen any clear and unequivocal footage of the ball touching the ground at any point - part of his arm looked to be under the ball when he went to ground so worst case scenario he has caught the ball in the end zone as Shields didn't mark him down by contact.

People say well Rodgers would have just marched down the field any way - great let's see him do it and it's irrelevant to the above call.

It's still annoying all these years on!

I mean...Rodgers would have.

 

[phildadon86]

What I want to know is why Romo threw a low percentage bomb on 4th and 1 when they needed to run off more clock before scoring.

That’s never mentioned.

Burn another two minutes, make GB use their TOs, and just maybe….maybe…you stop Rodgers from getting a FG.

Edit….in real time I thought it would be overturned. His arm wasn’t under the ball, although that didn’t stop me from heaving my phone across the room and smashing it once the ruling came down lol.

Romo being Romo and playing hero ball.

Beasely wide open underneath on that play too.

 

[darthseinfeld]

What I want to know is why Romo threw a low percentage bomb on 4th and 1 when they needed to run off more clock before scoring.

That’s never mentioned.

Burn another two minutes, make GB use their TOs, and just maybe….maybe…you stop Rodgers from getting a FG.

Edit….in real time I thought it would be overturned. His arm wasn’t under the ball, although that didn’t stop me from heaving my phone across the room and smashing it once the ruling came down lol.

It was definitely a low IQ play by Romo

 

[Swagger]

I mean...Rodgers would have.

The point is he wasn't asked to and there's a different pressure at having to do it when the game is on the line.

 

[JohnsKey19]

The point is he wasn't asked to and there's a different pressure at having to do it when the game is on the line.

Pressure? You mean like he did 2 years later @ATT with only 30 seconds on the clock?

 

[Swagger]

What I want to know is why Romo threw a low percentage bomb on 4th and 1 when they needed to run off more clock before scoring.

That’s never mentioned.

Burn another two minutes, make GB use their TOs, and just maybe….maybe…you stop Rodgers from getting a FG.

Edit….in real time I thought it would be overturned. His arm wasn’t under the ball, although that didn’t stop me from heaving my phone across the room and smashing it once the ruling came down lol.

I think it was 4th and 2. People claim Beesley was open but from what Romo could see he would have had to loop the ball over the scrum of players giving the defenders a chance to break up the play. For me it was the right play as PI also comes into contention and in any event Dez should have just landed on the 2 yard line and not reached for the TD which would have prevented the officials from having the power to reverse the call.

 

[DogFace]

1. Control
2. 2 feet down in bounds
3. Time to make a football move.

That’s the rules at the time of the catch.
By making two moves he demonstrated that the time aspect of the rule has been met.

 

[DogFace]

Let's talk about Jackie Smith's drop, instead.

Yeah. He just blew it. Unreal. He’d have made that catch 999 times out of 1000.

 

[Swagger]

Pressure? You mean like he did 2 years later @ATT with only 30 seconds on the clock?

How did he get on against the Vikings on Sunday with the game on the line?

He's an amazing QB but nothing is certain.

On the last drive in the 2014 playoff game he threw a pass that was tipped which very fortunately landed in Cobb's hands.

We don't know what would have happened for certain.

I think the Cowboys would have needed the 2 point conversion and the Packers would have likely got a field goal so overtime was arguably on the cards.

 

[DogFace]

It was the correct call with the rules that were in place at that time.

What part of the rule wasn’t met?

1. Control?
2. Two feet down inbounds?
3 Time to make a football move?

 

[JustChip]

Let's talk about Jackie Smith's drop, instead.

Or the Duane Thomas fumble in SB V that was incorrectly ruled a recovery by Baltimore.

 

[jwitten82]

Lol 10 years bro, we gotta let it go. It is what it is

 

[phildadon86]

It was the correct call with the rules that were in place at that time.

Ok.

Ill bite.

Did Cobb make his catch that led to a FG? They called it a catch when it clearly touched the ground. That game the Cowboys got screwed regardless of the catch/no catch by Dez. Murrays fumble didnt help matters.

 

[locked&loaded]

It was the correct call with the rules that were in place at that time.

only if you think none of these things are football moves: 3 steps, switching the ball into one hand and reaching out for the goal line.