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Carharris2
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Watched it like 20 times(can’t see the ref though) and his helmet didn’t make contact. His face mask makes contact with the top of Rodgers helmet and that can’t be avoided in this dive attempt to get Rodgers down.He made contact. Now we can argue how hard the contact was, but nevertheless he led with his crown and made contact with Rodgers. That's going to get called more often than not across a league. That's just a dumb play by Mayowa. The last thing one should do in making a tackle is just lead with the top of your helmet. It opens you up to a call like that.
As for the "final ruling" helping us, by that I mean, they granted us the sack thus putting the ball back on the 17 yard line. If they had called the ball an incomplete pass, the Packers would then have had the ball on the 33. So I am perplexed why people are arguing over this whole sack/intentional grounding thing. They granted us the sack (which would have been the same result as a grounding call). We would have been screwed if they had just ruled the pass an incompletion.
They couldn’t possibly rule it incomplete. It was clearly grounding. Grounding is also a loss of downs. I’m not sure how the two(the roughing) and the grounding offset or which one supersedes the other.