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OT: NFL thread

Perhaps you don't truly notice the sheer amount of beneficial calls the Patriots get?

I think that might be it, most of their fans don't.
 
The NFL rule committee decided that play is not a catch.

It doesn't matter that the rest of the planet correctly disagrees. The umps have to follow the bad rule.
 
Or as @MikePereira tweeted:
Look, here is the rule. If you’re going to the ground you have to hold onto the ball when the ball hits the ground…Going to the ground trumps lunging/reaching to try and get extra yards or score a TD. You do that at your own risk. It’s incomplete…just ask Dez

People are saying a runner breaking the plane causes the ball to become dead…which is true. BUT the receiver does not become a runner until he completes the process of the catch. TOTALLY DIFFERENT

Personally, I think if you can lunge with the ball, it implies you have control, BUT the NFL insists on the ground being the yardstick
 
I'm surprised the Bills are sitting in a playoff spot with 2 games to go. They'll likely find a way to eff it up. They have to beat the Pats in Foxboro next week to have a legit shot.
 
Habsy said:
That's ridiculous
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The rule has been ridiculous for years. Nobody likes it --players, coaches, fans, etc but some geeks were paid to describe a catch in absolute terms... and this is what we got.
 
Yep, the rule is stupid but that's the rule and under those rules that's the right call. The worse for me was the Bears tight earlier this season who caught the ball, blew his knee, hold on the ball going to the ground, then finally deposited the ball and some ****ing dick head in an office decided that it was an incomplete pass.
 
As soon as he lunged and broke the plane of the goal line the play is over no matter what happens afterwards. If he has possession when the plane is broken it's a touchdown. Losing possession when you hit the ground only applies in the open field. The instant the plane is broken it's a TD aa was ruled on the field. The refs in the league office stole the game from the Steelers and gifted it to the chosen people of New England like they always do.

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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
As soon as he lunged and broke the plane of the goal line the play is over no matter what happens afterwards. If he has possession when the plane is broken it's a touchdown. Losing possession when you hit the ground only applies in the open field. The instant the plane is broken it's a TD aa was ruled on the field. The refs in the league office stole the game from the Steelers and gifted it to the chosen people of New England like they always do.

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Unlike runners, receivers undergo a convoluted process to determine possession. He lost it on the way to the ground.

I'm with you.... I think if you can lunge with the ball, you have possession but the rule dictates otherwise
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
As soon as he lunged and broke the plane of the goal line the play is over no matter what happens afterwards. If he has possession when the plane is broken it's a touchdown. Losing possession when you hit the ground only applies in the open field. The instant the plane is broken it's a TD aa was ruled on the field. The refs in the league office stole the game from the Steelers and gifted it to the chosen people of New England like they always do.

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That's simply incorrect.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
As soon as he lunged and broke the plane of the goal line the play is over no matter what happens afterwards. If he has possession when the plane is broken it's a touchdown. Losing possession when you hit the ground only applies in the open field. The instant the plane is broken it's a TD aa was ruled on the field. The refs in the league office stole the game from the Steelers and gifted it to the chosen people of New England like they always do.

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He doesn't have possession if he doesn't complete the pass, which he didn't. Breaking the plane only matters if you have possession of the ball.

It's dumb but that's the rule.
 
As for that idiotic rule it's completely unfair to hold receivers to a different standard than RB at the goal line.

That was a touchdown.
 
Bills need to win last 2 games....which means beat Patriots next week. Because Ravens will most probably win their last two games, considering they are playing Colts-Bengals
 
TheCountofMonteCristo said:
Under the rule it wasn't. The rule is the problem.
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There's the letter of the law and then there's the spirit of the law. In sports, once you sacrifice the latter for the former you're on the slippery slope to oblivion. Every player on the field last night, regardless of what uniform colours they were wearing, knows in his heart that the Steelers scored a touchdown on that play per the spirit of the rules. If you're going to delay the emotional, instantaneous reaction of the fans and waste time watching super slow-motion replays while you pick the fly turds out of the pepper after every big play, you're eventually going to kill the sport.

Video review, in all its forms and in all sports in which it is employed, has gone too far. We'd be better off not using it at all and just allow the officials on the field and on the ice to decide because it's not like adding replay has ended controversy or caused refs to make better decisions. BS penalties get called in every game, goals that shouldn't count get counted, righteous touchdowns get called back and umps still can't tell a ball from a strike. What's the point of having all this technology if they're still going to screw up the games?

If replay didn't exist yesterday the Steelers would have won and the Patriots wouldn't feel as though they were cheated.
 
Steelers WR Antonio Brown has a partially torn calf muscle and is expected to miss the last 2 weeks of regular season. The hope is that he will be ready for the playoffs. Imagine that....full disclosure..
 
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