They said he didn't have control because he moved the ball from 1 hand to another and then stretched out his arm to score.
Now they can rule it a catch and then use running back rules once the catch is established.
But wouldn't he still not have established control in that case? It has to be two feet down, control and a football move to be a catch.
Seems to me that officials before were only really paying attention to whether receivers maintained control after hitting the ground. That was never supposed to be the rule. It was only the rule if they did not get two feet down, have control and make a football move.
The best thing about the rule change is that it forces officials to focus on those other things. But if the league is saying Dez's catch would have been a catch under the "new" rule of two feet down, control and football move then he met all the criteria for it to be a catch then, which nullifies going to the ground.
Blandino's excuse was that he did not make a move common to the game (football move), but the league is essentially acknowledging that he did.
Anyway, I'm not going to get back into all that. It just seems to me that if the league is saying those things would have made it a catch, then it's basically admitting that what Blandino and the officials were wrong in what they said happened (whether it was lack of control or not making a football move).