News: Goodell is now worried about the catch rule

[DogFace]

It’s done at this point percy. From avoiding a question to TMZ-esque suppositions about Blandino being forced out and his unfinished sentence on a radio interview implicating guilt to now being misleading about an article. Don’t know if this is what you meant about “personal stuff” but to me these are big indicators that someone doesn’t want to deal with substance and will avoid and twist things to keep from admitting to a flawed stance. When you first presented a Blandino video you took offense to my saying you “conveniently” left out parts and I actually thought that maybe I was indeed being too harsh. Now I see it was only the beginning of a pattern.

We know the basic stances. I believe going to the ground applied and it’s cut and dry if it does. You believe that Dez performed a football move (actually several) to negate going to the ground despite the fact that none of the 3 major players of rules and officiating say that he did, even when they were asked and had the benefit of multiple replays to explain why he didn’t (I’m guessing that Steratore did). Pereira analyzed it on live TV and he has not been shy about saying when he thought a call was wrong, including just the week prior when he criticized the officials for the picked up flag against Detroit. He said we got away with a call. Again, he said that on live TV. So either all 3 are incompetent in that you and other catch theorists were able to see things they weren’t (with a vested interest in seeing it, mind you) or all 3 of them in different places at the time quickly orchestrated a conspiracy to cover up a goof. Good luck proving that. But catch theorists don’t require proof. They just need to hear “we wuz robbed” and then go with it while sneering at anyone who dares to ask for even a shred of proof. It’s an emotional circle that never ends and will probably be part of Cowboys victimhood lore forever. I'm sure it'll continue to be fun.

Typical of your kind. Can’t even admit defeat when it’s apparent to everyone including you. Sad

 

[MarcusRock]

And what does "you can sure reduce it from what it is now" mean?

Saying you can't eliminate it is correct.
Saying "you can sure reduce it from what it is now" is laughably wrong.

If you try to solve one problem, you just create another. If you tailor the rule to address the Dez Bryant play or the Jesse James play, you'll just create other problems in different situations. No matter where you draw the line, there will always be plays right on that line which everyone spends weeks/months/years arguing about.
LOL!! When you're whole point rests on the ability of the field officials to do their job, then you've failed.

It is a cycle we have been in for about 20 years now:
1) A controversial pass is complete (or incomplete) based on the rules
2) People say "wow that rule sucks, because that pass really should have been ruled the other way."
3) NFL tweeks the rule so that the above situation will never be a controversy again
4) The new rule leads to a controversial ruling.
5) Go to step (2)

I have to agree with this, especially the bold. The field official muffed up the Dez play which is what started the controversy. Although if he ruled it no catch and it was reviewed and confirmed, there'd still be these Zapruder film buffs that would include the field official with all the major rules and official folks who said it was no catch that very day as people who, after watching all angles of video multiple times, missed what they appear to see.

Like @Streetwise said, watch it in real speed below. People can make slanted suppositions about why the field official called it a catch and until there's word from him or a quote in an article someplace, no one knows why and you just choose an option that supports your side of things. I think he called it a catch because at real game speed, he didn't notice the ball hit the ground. It would have been a catch in that case. The last sentence of the going to the ground rule would have been the bailout: "If he regains control prior to the ball touching the ground, the pass is complete." That means Dez could have tipped that ball in the air 7 times while going to the ground as long as he kept it off the ground and regained possession. So if you apply the wrong rule on the field or misapply rules, it should be reviewable so the right ones can be applied. That is what happened.

Don't know how it was on these forums but on the old DC forums the catch supporters first go-to was "the ball never hit the ground" before they were presented with evidence that made their story morph several times more to try to cling to a football move ..... any football move. Heck, if you've followed this 2018 debate here all along you've seen it morph from "he reached" to "no, no, he did a tuck."

And to your cycle point, if it had been called a catch, can you imagine the controversy of Dallas appearing to get away with calls in the playoffs 2 weeks in a row, having gotten away with one against Detroit the week just prior? It would be a conspiracy theory in the opposite direction and more foot stamping by drama queens vowing to never watch the NFL again because they cheat for Dallas, lol. The NFL has razor-thin margins indeed.

 

[MarcusRock]

Ooops, keep having to adjust to this board's GIF file size limits. Same with my sig. Here's another version of the GIF I was trying to post.

 

[jsb357]

The ambiguity of the catch rule as well as inconsistent officiating drives casual fans away from
regular seasons games.

But really they won't make any serious headway until if affects the outcome of a Super Bowl.

RG is just trying to head it off at the pass.

Looks like they changed the definition of a catch in the two weeks between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl.