Explain to me how that wasn't a 'football move' **Bryant Reversed Call Thread**

[DoctorChicken]

He has to maintain control of the ball.

The ball popped out when it touched the ground, moved all the way up to his shoulder pad, then Dez let go and managed to catch it again laying on his back.

He simply didn't maintain control of the ball.

 

[Race Bannon]

I'll swallow this pill if I see a shot where the ball actually hit the ground.

 

[TheKey]

Actually the view from the sideline closest shows his forearm under the ball the entire time.

Get a screenshot

 

[texbumthelife]

It's pretty technical. There is a difference between control and possession if you are going to the ground -- if going to the ground, the steps don't matter; rather, you have to complete the catch through your fall, or make a "football move." Of course, the counterargument is that Dez's stretch is a "football move."

A stretch for the goal line is just about the most basic and standard "football move" there is.

 

[crazytown41]

It's was a bad call. But the NFL is making sure the golden boy moves on. I will be rooting for Seattle to end his career. I'm that mad

You dont have to root hard. Seattle D is gonna make a fool out of Rodgers again...

Really wanted Romo to redeem himself next week but refs werent having it

 

[Eddie]

They need to keep running the Hanz and Franz commercials.

 

[Clove]

Please give it up. Who cares? It's over, it's because we choked as usual, maybe in the next 6 years we'll be back here.

 

[Gaede]

Disgusting call. That has to get some attention. If not, I'm done. How can you cheer for a team when the refs can literally make up rules to keep them from winning?

 

[TheRomoSexual]

A stretch for the goal line is just about the most basic and standard "football move" there is.

I agree. I'm just explaining the technicalities.

 

[mldardy]

Please give it up. Who cares? It's over, it's because we choked as usual, maybe in the next 6 years we'll be back here.

Wow dude. This is a thread to let people vent over the call. And yeah we do care. You can go somewhere else if you don't want to hear/see it.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

The ball hit the ground but the ground can neither cause a fumble nor an incompletion. These rules completely conflict and contradict each other.

I believe it CAN't cause a fumble but it CAN cause a incompletion. Its ridiculous. Dez made a football move to go for the TD.

 

[theogt]

It's pretty technical. There is a difference between control and possession if you are going to the ground -- if going to the ground, the steps don't matter; rather, you have to complete the catch through your fall, or make a "football move." Of course, the counterargument is that Dez's stretch is a "football move."

How can lunging to the goal line not be a football move? What else could be?

 

[lostar2009]

This team can beat anyone in the league except for the referees.

 

[black label]

 

[Kevinicus]

The ball hit the ground but the ground can neither cause a fumble nor an incompletion. These rules completely conflict and contradict each other.

The ground can cause an incompletion if it causes the ball to come loose. I think it was a completion already though.

 

[gdogg24]

The ball never hit the ground! He landed on his forearm! If anything that's a touchdown!

 

[TheRomoSexual]

How can lunging to the goal line not be a football move? What else could be?

I'm not saying it wasn't. I think it was. The ref booth said that it wasn't enough to constitute a football move, and I disagree. Especially since it was called a catch -- they essentially said that it was INDISPUTABLE that Dez did NOT make a football move, which is nonsense.

I'm just saying arguments related to "steps" and "control" don't matter in this context.

 

[Kevinicus]

Actually the view from the sideline closest shows his forearm under the ball the entire time.

That's the view I think that makes it clear the ball does touch. The ball is bigger than his forearm/wrist, and his arm was more to the side than under.

 

[Rack]

He has to maintain control of the ball.

The ball popped out when it touched the ground, moved all the way up to his shoulder pad, then Dez let go and managed to catch it again laying on his back.

He simply didn't maintain control of the ball.

1). If you make a "football move" you no longer have to maintain control throughout the catch. Dez clearly dove for the pylon (aka a football move).

2). The ball did NOT touch the ground. It came loose on his forearm but did not touch the ground.

 

[Gaede]

I'm not saying it wasn't. I think it was. The ref booth said that it wasn't enough to constitute a football move, and I disagree. Especially since it was called a catch -- they especially said that it was INDISPUTABLE that Dez did NOT make a football move, which is nonsense.

I'm just saying arguments related to "steps" and "control" don't matter in this context.

Especially after watching replays.