Twitter: Micah was robbed of a sack

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All is well that ends well. The NFL did the right thing and corrected who got the sack...

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MarcusRock said:
It's only nonsense to those without variable thinking. In this case, it's just simple reading. The rules make no reference to the LOS, only whether someone has or hasn't "clearly become a runner." A QB can run and fall short of the LOS for a negative gain and not have it be a sack, designed run play or not. This play was an example of the judgment call that had to be made in such a case. Jim Nantz called it a run in his broadcast and it stood that way until a scorer changed it later. Nantz later credited the Cowboys with 4 sacks when this one was actually 5 but wasn't then, because they changed it later. So he knew the rules.

And then you wonder why dang near half the board still thinks it was a catch in Green Bay (you included). No variable thinking. So the NFL had to dumb stuff down due to the "outrage."

Edit: Even in listening to the audio of the Tweet video, the stadium announcer doesn't call it a sack. He credits Armstrong with "tripping up" Goff.
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“variable thinking” = having no idea what you’re talking about. Anyone that has watched enough football knows that’s a sack. Regardless what the rule book doesn’t say, the call on the field is always based around two things. Did the QB drop back to pass or was it a QB designed run. If the QB dropped back to pass and is pressured into a run, but it tackled behind the los= sack.
 
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CampJR said:
“variable thinking” = having no idea what you’re talking about. Anyone that has watched enough football knows that’s a sack. Regardless what the rule book doesn’t say, the call on the field is always based around two things. Did the QB drop back to pass or was it a QB designed run. If the QB dropped back to pass and is pressured into a run, but it tackled behind the los= sack.
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Well, as someone "that has watched enough football," then why did Jim Nantz" AND the stadium announcer (and the official scorekeeper at the time) not call it a sack? Because they knew what I knew that just because a QB is tackled behind the LOS, even when it's not a designed run play, doesn't mean it's an automatic sack. The rules I posted even show this and still people keep to their "it has to be one or the other" thinking to try to simplify what's not a simple occurrence per the examples I've given and eerily similar to the catch rule debates over the years. I mean, you literally quote the rule I posted leaving out the "clearly becomes a runner" part that makes things what I say they are and that Nantz and others co-signed when the play happened. That shows that it CAN happen that way, and did until the scoring reviewers changed it later.
 
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