Done with the NFLs officiating

[mkindred]

Screw these refs. I'm boycotting rest of the playoffs and SuperBowl and making a call to the NFL front office tomorrow. This league is a a joke and not sure I want to watch anymore until the stupid refs are held accountable for their on the field actions like the players are.

 

[Sarge]

Calvin Johnson rule. The call was correct but it's a really stupid rule and we're not the first team to get screwed by it

The rule needs to be changeD, clearly. It's BS.

 

[KJJ]

Dude. Sure you are.

I'm giving my opinion and my advice to you is to let it go.

 

[superonyx]

Even worse to have the officiating guru get on air and say three steps and a stretch into the end zone aren't football moves

The league is under damage control now. They will have the guys come out and defend the call by ignoring the fact he made a football move.

 

[DogFace]

WAIT WAIT WAIT.

I've been informed by the crybaby police, you know the ones who cry about our team all the time, that this was a legit overturn.

Please move on.

 

[Clove]

We're just not as good as the pack.

 

[KJJ]

you should really be banned

I'll ban you from my discussion list if you keep it up.

 

[DallasEast]

The rule needs to be changeD, clearly. It's BS.

This.

 

[mahoneybill]

The league is under damage control now. They will have the guys come out and defend the call by ignoring the fact he made a football move.

Perria was the first to do that

 

[BigWillie]

Garrett said the officials told him the lunge wasn't a football move because, "it's not a move common to the game."

So now lunging to the end zone isn't a football move? What exactly is it, a cha cha dance?

 

[The Quest for Six]

He took 2 steps with the ball in firmly in his hands. Its a catch.

had nothing to do with firm in his hands, he didn't maintain the catch throughout the process when he hit the ground...the rule is crystal clear...I said it before the play was challenged that it will probably be ruled an incomplete pass.

 

[Cowboys22]

So if he takes 15 steps and then bobbles it, no catch?

That's ridiculous. There's no way to get 15 steps in while going to the ground. He was clearly going to the ground thus he must maintain possession. Hate the rule, not the refs for getting it right. If he would of kept the ball tucked to his shoulder pad it would have been a catch. It popped totally out so it's incomplete by the letter of the rule.

 

[Nightman]

I suppose this was a catch as well.

And on top of the terrible call, they gave GB their Timeout back on a completed pass in bounds with 20 secs left.

 

[KJJ]

had nothing to do with firm in his hands, he didn't maintain the catch throughout the process when he hit the ground...the rule is crystal clear...

 

[ConstantReboot]

I'm giving my opinion and my advice to you is to let it go.

yeah sure.....

 

[superonyx]

The rule needs to be changeD, clearly. It's BS.

The rule doesn't even apply to that pla

By the rule that's in place he didn't complete the process of the catch all the way to the ground. The Calvin Johnson play from a few years ago that resulted in this rule was more of a "catch" than this one.

wrong!!!
He already completed the process of the catch and he was going to the end zone. The guy took 3 steps and an elbow hit the ground in his process of scoring a TD.

 

[CATCH17]

By the rule that's in place he didn't complete the process of the catch all the way to the ground. The Calvin Johnson play from a few years ago that resulted in this rule was more of a "catch" than this one.

He completed it and was making a football move.

 

[john van brocklin]

Dez took 3 steps before he went down with the football. That was a catch. Officiating is trash. That cost the game.

JUST STOP !!!!

This did not cost us the game.

We score there and go up by 2 points.

The Packers were in FG range when they ran out the clock.

This loss huts , but we missed our oppotunities....

 

[Teague31]

So if I guy catches the ball and runs 30 yards and loses the ball as he hits the ground it's not a catch?

 

[65fastback2plus2]

video in case anyone needs to see this great catch again: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000456759/Did-Dez-catch-it