I think Cris Collensworth should be let go from commintating on any game, I can't stand him and or his voice. HE SPELLS HIS NAME WRONG TO BOOT / CRIS - CHRIS
I am in the Clement completion camp as well. We gotta get over the whole the ball must freeze and not move....he was clearly simply shifting the ball in deeper into his left arm to secure it more so. Only CC carrying on with his bias announcing made me begin to question what my eyes and the replay even told me....
I don't see anything different between that catch and the catch...errr... noncatch by Jesse James in the regular season. Neither survived the ground, yet both made a controlled catch and football move to establish themselves as a runner. Karma? Pittsburgh likely would have won that game with the same call. One thing I will say about Foles, he will never have a bigger price tag on him than he does right now.
Had they had the same call seedings would have reversed and Pats would have had to host JAX instead. Doesn't change much in the long run. Don't get me wrong, I loved the call and the result last night, but that has to be the worst rule in the NFL and cannot be ruled on consistently.
To me it's not whether he shifted the ball or not or was a runner or not, keep it consistent through the year!
You guys all realized no one really is disputing the Ertz play...once he became a runner which was deemed had occurred controlling the ball through the catch was over and already accomplished. At that point all that matter was he had reached out and broke the plane of the endzone prior to being down by contact.
Also....Ertz took vastly more steps than in the James play...and than dove and reached....IMO both are touchdowns but James never became a runner in my opinion like Ertz did by rule.
Collinsworth disagreed. Man he sounded like an idiot when he said that the Ertz play wasn't a touchdown. It actually made me mad that a commentator obviously didn't know the rule of, the player became a runner, made a football move and then crossed the plane to score. SMH.
Either way, I thibk the right two teams made it to the big game. Both number one seeds, both coaches showed that they were there to win the game and it all came down to the final 2 minute drill. Obviously I seen the outcome I wanted, but it was one of the better superbowls I can recall. Neither team was truly out of it until the bitter end.
I wonder why Malcolm Butler didnt play a single snap. Unless he killed somebody he should of been out there imo.
For many plays the last couple of years that’s an incomplete pass because of the ball movement. If you want to change the definition on what warrants the completion of a catch then I’m fine with that. Start the new definition next season. You can’t make the Clement play a completion after ALL of the other similar calls over the last couple of seasons were ruled incomplete. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
They said it “stands” as called, which to me stated they did not see enough to over turn the call on the field. I have no idea what a catch is anymore, my initial thought was “no catch” based on how they called them this year. To me I would just go back to what is called on the field. Bad calls happen
No I don’t think a team would give up that 4th pick for him. I think most teams would rather draft a 22 year old at that spot and pay him a “cheaper” 4 year rookie contract than pay a 29 year old Foles the kind of money he would warrant if you traded that high of a draft pick for him. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
