MarcusRock
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Wasn't the whole contention with Bryant that he did not make a football move? Isn't that what those who have been arguing that it wasn't a catch have been saying?
The league seems to be saying it would have been a catch because he got two feet down, maintained control and made a football move, but under the rule in place at the time, those things would have made it a catch. That's why Blandino and his cronies tried to dismiss Dez making a football move.
Maybe I'm missing something in this. I know they wanted to take away the part of maintaining control through the process of hitting the ground, but it seems to me that the things they are saying will make catches like Dez's a catch are the same things in place that should have made it a catch then. He had to get two feet down, have control and make a football move in order for the ground not to have mattered. Now, he has to get two feet down, have control and make a football move and the ground no longer matters.
Yes, you're missing that the going to the ground rule mandated control throughout contacting the ground. Once replay showed that the ball hit the ground and then the ball came out of his possession for a second, that is what overturned Dez' catch. Now that they've taken the GTTG mandate away, depending on the language, Dez' play would now be a fumble that Dez recovered himself.