No, you had to meet the definition of element of time, control & making football moves to establish yourself as a runner. Dez did all those things.
Unless you were "going to the ground." Then those requirements take precedent. As such, you needed to maintain possession throughout the process of contacting the ground.
No, he was not a runner, he did not make a football move, running down the field jumping up and your momentum of jumping up and falling forward is NOT A FOOTBALL Move.....See Calvin Johnson non TD catch against the bears.
When did I say Rodgers wouldn’t amount to much?
You if you stumble for 20 yards & then bobble the ball as you fall, you never became a runner with possession of the ball? The ball just magically drifted along with you for those 20 yards?
The rule was clear, I said it at the the time during the game thread that that play was going to be overturned on review because I knew the rule, and it was overturned,, See the Calvin Johnson TD catch against the Bears that was overturned .it's no different than the Dez play...know the rule!
They changed the rule to cover themselves botching that play, made a complete disaster of things the following year and THEN changed it again to what it was when Dez caught it, finally with a little more clarity.
It was a 4th and 2, Romo should have gone for the first down to either Beasley or Witten and milked the clock. Had Dez scored on that play, Rodgers had plenty of time to move the Packers in position for the winning score. After the catch was overturned we couldn’t stop the Packers from eating up the clock. Our defense got us beat that day. Rodgers looked like he was running around on a peg leg and we had no pass rush. We only had 28 sacks that season after moving from DWare.
sorry, meant some of you guys.
So, you would be fine with the 20 yards of stumbling being ruled a non catch?
But common sense says that an uncaught object will continue on some path other that that of the receiver. The fact that the ball stops its flight (which would take it out of bounds) and takes Dez's path from that point until the time it moves from his clear control is the very definition of being possessed.
Well the league accepted it was a catch , fumble but recovered by the same player later. I think the most important part was changing hands , how could you change hands unless you finished the catch, Dez was a bit dumb for lunging at goal line for the TD , if he just went down and kept possession it would have no doubt and ball in 1/2 yard line , which would have wasted clock and most likely converted TD.
Romo saw no safety help, one on one coverage for Dez all the way on a pre-snap read. He didn’t even look for Beasley because the only reason Beasley was temporarily free was because of the timed corner blitz as the corner left him for the safety.
even when he took three steps and a football move leaping for the endzone before the ground caused the fumbl... err I mean non catch??
He clearly caught the ball above his head with both hands, brought it down to shoulders, then transferred it to his right hand, looking down to evaluate the situation with the defender & then lunged to advance the ball. All hallmarks of being in possession & having become a runner.
