I have seen no one talk about this. Literally Periera on TV talking about how this is a touchdown with the video evidence clearly showing its not even a catch.
As he hits the ground the ball pops out and drags across the ground trapped.
I have seen no one talk about this. Literally Periera on TV talking about how this is a touchdown with the video evidence clearly showing its not even a catch.
As he hits the ground the ball pops out and drags across the ground trapped.
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Cause he was already in the end zone. That’s all I can think!
Because that’s what they called it. There is no point to question what is and isnt a TD anymore since they call it whatever they want it to be.
Because he’s not wearing a Bills helmet (jk but not really).
It obviously hits the turf.
Yeah, between this and the Cook fumble replay I have no idea what in, out, a catch or a fumble is. 😉
It was close but I believe they said his knee was down in the end zone before this so he was ruled down as a TD
I think because the Bengals challenged they just looked at if he was in the end zone, if the Bills challenged then they could of challenged if it was a catch. Can both teams challenge different aspects of the same play ?
The ball broke the plane and the receiver had control. How is it not a td?
Meh, we still won.
The review seemed so rushed with insufficient camera angles, at least to the TV audience.
If you’re gonna rule it a catch, I would call it a TD…but I just don’t understand how it’s a catch. It’s like they overcorrected with the new rules and are letting players get away with trapping the ball now.
First we determine what team the player plays for…
He caught it on the white line . That’s considered breaking the end zone . I thought it was a great play.Lets go Bills .SupaBowl bound
He initially controlled the ball while over the goal line. He’s gets down in bounds. The question is whether he lost control of the ball while out of bounds or while the ball touched the ground.
The league has been consistently generous on what constitutes control.
I was so confused by this call and was wondering why the announcers and everyone weren’t more alarmed by it. It was also 1st and goal on the 1 or 2, so they were probably gonna get a TD either way. It really just saved us time (if needed) for a comeback.
They were so focused on the position of the ball over the plane of the goal line that this was a complete oversight on the officials. Horrible call but like stated above, it likely wouldn’t have changed the scoring… only the time.
I thought the same thing. They really just glossed right over it.
Yeah I dunno the ball popped out and he tried to pin it against the ground. He used the ground to maintain control at best, which I think is not a catch. The ball shoveled about a gallon of snow on the slide.
Not sure what nfl sees there. Still closer to a catch than that worthy catch in playoffs last year though.
That ball was picking up snow like a shovel he did not have control it was just pinned against his shoulder
Also Mike P is only there to make it sound like their bad calls aren’t as bad as they are.
We still don’t know what a catch is. Lovely
The whole idea of “moving” is irrelevant. It’s does the ground aid in making the catch (most of the times this causes movement, which is why people get confused). Considering he doesn’t have it in his hands the ball is just totally pinned between his shoulders and the ground. Ball doesn’t move but still a non catch. The pylon cam shows the ball drag on the ground for a good while without his arms under it.
I think with no snow it would have been called incomplete. But snow kind of obscured the ball and it didn’t seem like there was a good angle they showed.
But if you use common sense it obviously came out hit the ground and moved.
Not just moves but where does he enter the end zone with control, it was called down at the 1 so you need significant proof to overturn it, which there was none. I mean I think it hardly matters since we couldnt stop anything, but how are people supposed to believe there is no interference when this is a catch and Likelys was not.
That ball wasn’t secured at all. It hit him in the chest inside the end zone, subsequent bobbling capped off with the bobbling terminating when the nose of the ball hit the ground. This was a horrible call, though I’m sure they would have scored from the half yard line. None of that matters though, because Josh. Go Bills.
The rules are ambiguous for a reason. They can call whatever the league and Vegas want and then whatever “rules specialist” is talking can justify whatever the call is “as it is technically correct”. I don’t think it’s all rigged but the illusion of fairness is broken.
Online sports betting?
The explanation given contradicts the explanation given about Dak Prescott’s safety.
Because we are the Bills. I do not understand what we did to the NFL but they just love to screw us
I remember they called Knox’s touchdown in the playoffs against the Dolphins an incomplete pass and yet it looked more like a completion than this.
I’m still pissed off about this.
It actually helped us by saving clock time, it was one of the few times a shitty td call worked in our favor
Though the all suppose to cross the line , not the player.
i’m one of the few here who thinks it’s a catch or close enough that i wouldn’t be mad about it. it’s halfway out of his arm but it’s secure and i honestly didn’t see it move after ground contact, which is the rule this year. i’m sure there’s similar plays that have been called incomplete. i can’t remember if that houston guys int against mahomes stood or not but that was super similar to this.
I kept asking the same question on Sunday and wondering “do they not see the ball coming loose the second he hits the ground?”
I felt like inwas taking crazy pills when they called that a catch, the ball is secured by the ground just as much if not more so than the receivers hands.
Yeah bills got shafted on this call. First off ball wasn’t even breaking the plane and then he had no full control of ball
That’s wha I seen as well. No different than a catch early in the season by a chiefs player .
Yeah it didn’t seem like a catch to me but this dude and the announcers were so confidently saying otherwise that I just kind of ended up believing them. Glad you posted this
Anyone else getting flash backs to that Xavier Worthy catch in the AFCCG last year?
It was ruled a catch on the field. It’s hard to overturn that on review. To the extent it was a catch, it was clearly in the endzone.
IMO, it’s either a TD or incomplete. If he had control while it was over the plane, it’s a td. If he didn’t, then it hit the ground and moved so it should be incomplete. They need to figure this shit out though, cuz those are the kinds of opinion/ref plays that piss everyone off
I thought forward progress the moment he made the catch was a TD since it broke the plane, then everything afterwards was moot. But this does bring the discussion of breaking the plane vs. completing the catch
Yeah this one was mind numbing. They always say the ball can touch the ground if the hands (or one hand I guess) is underneath the ball, and in control. That was not the case here…not even close. His hands were on each side of the ball AFTER he got some sort of control, as he dragged it across the ground. When I saw the replay which you got this screenshot from, I was certain that it was not even a catch, let alone a TD. How Peira (sp?), or the on field Refs, or NY called it a TD is really suspect.