What was the rule at the time? It's a catch IF you grab the ball while controlled and take at least 2 steps to prove you made a move with the ball in hand? Dez did that. The officials on the field initially called it a catch, but the crooked officials in New York (part of the camera review) overruled it and called it not a catch. Almost 3 years later, the NFL's Review Board wholeheartedly agreed that it was a catch and should have been ruled a catch.Why do this to yourselves?
Really, really wanting it to be so still doesn't make it so. Just grasp the ball and go down and we're in business. Can't blame Dez for trying to score but the rule was what it was. At least it can never happen like that again. Beasley was there in the flat for what it's worth.
What was the rule at the time? It's a catch IF you grab the ball while controlled and take at least 2 steps to prove you made a move with the ball in hand? Dez did that. The officials on the field initially called it a catch, but the crooked officials in New York (part of the camera review) overruled it and called it not a catch. Almost 3 years later, the NFL's Review Board wholeheartedly agreed that it was a catch and should have been ruled a catch.
No, not true. The committee determined it was a legit catch according to the rule in place at the time the game took place in 2014.The reason it wasn’t called catch is the original rule stated that if you’re falling down during the act of securing a catch, you then must maintain possession through hitting the ground.
Dez caught the ball and started lunging toward the end zone, and the refs interpreted that as going to the ground even though it took a few steps to get there as he was no longer upright. The ball then hit the ground as he went down and popped out of his hand.
What the board did 3 years later was lessen that part of the rule. So they thought it should be a catch moving forward, but it wasn’t viewed as a catch in the old rule. The refs weren’t crooked, the rule book was flawed for not foreseeing the specific thing Dez did.
What was the rule at the time? It's a catch IF you grab the ball while controlled and take at least 2 steps to prove you made a move with the ball in hand? Dez did that. The officials on the field initially called it a catch, but the crooked officials in New York (part of the camera review) overruled it and called it not a catch. Almost 3 years later, the NFL's Review Board wholeheartedly agreed that it was a catch and should have been ruled a catch.
Agreed.I will always believe THAT call, cost us a trip to the big dance. That was our window...
No, not true. The committee determined it was a legit catch according to the rule in place at the time the game took place in 2014.
Afterwards is when they changed the rule, but not until after they ruled the officials got it wrong.
Correct! It definitely was a catch by Dez. Plus, the other rule where the ground can not cause a fumble should also have been in play since the defender had already touched Dez as Dez was lunging forward towards the goal line just after Dez had already established a catch, plus football move.The rules at the time were:
1. Control
2. Two feet in bounds
3. “Time” to make a football
Once those 3 steps are complete he’s a runner.
Not only did he have time to, he actually made at least two football moves.
1. Switching the ball from two hands to one after he brought if you his shoulder.
2. And lunging
Why do this to yourselves?
Really, really wanting it to be so still doesn't make it so. Just grasp the ball and go down and we're in business. Can't blame Dez for trying to score but the rule was what it was. At least it can never happen like that again. Beasley was there in the flat for what it's worth.
Correct! It definitely was a catch by Dez. Plus, the other rule where the ground can not cause a fumble should also have been in play since the defender had already touched Dez as Dez was lunging forward towards the goal line just after Dez had already established a catch, plus football move.
The officials robbed the Cowboys.
crooked Green Bay replay ref.
NFL already said it was a catch.
yeah but cowboys still would have lost as GB would have scored last to win the game, so catch or not makes no difference in outcome of game.
however, the call on field should have stood.
If they have to look at for 2 min or longer and in slow mo etc to tell, the call on the field should just stand.
I still see calls, where I think yeah it is a catch, and then they say no it isnt lol, and I say it wasnt a catch, and they then say it was !
Same thing for fumbles, they tend to micro mange the calls with all the replays and slow mo, and still cant get it right if it was close either way.
It could be that the dallas GB game in 14, had to do with the over under, and if dallas scores there vegas loses a ton of money, so they rule no catch,
and then GB runs out clock, with no more scoring, making vegas very happy !