Dez Bryant Offers To Help Roger Goodell Clarify Catch Rule

I think the argument from the rule is that it doesn't matter that he was "down" because he hadn't gotten the ball under control so he hadn't even "caught" it at that point.

My argument is that he completed TWO clear football moves common to the game under the previous rule wording. His steps on the ground don't matter, the ball coming loose after he rolls doesn't matter.

He changed hands. Purposefully. That is clearly from possession and control of the ball.

He extended his hand to get extra yardage/the endzone. Because he had control of the ball and was able to do so.

He had enough control to do those things, which means had he just not tried as much as he did, and fallen on his back, it's a completion. Because he had control and absolutely would have had it. He was hurt for doing extra because he's a freak athlete.

No one at the time explained how or why it wasn't a football move common to the game. Every analyst and rules "expert" would pick different things and fixate on that as if it was all that mattered. Seriously, I heard like 4 explanations from different people. From the refs in the game afterwards, to the NFL's chief of officiating, Mike Periera. There was not a consistent explanation to why it wasn't a catch, and not one of them every addressed how those two actions weren't football moves after saying other things weren't. "The steps don't count because he was falling"

I'm not saying they took a win. But that's a 1st and goal from like the 4. We absolutely punch that in last year. We go up by one. So we probably try the 2 pt conversion. Do we convert? Not sure.

Then we have to stop Rodgers marching down the field with a couple minutes left and timeout. Do we have to hold them to a field goal for the tie or for the win?

We were robbed of an amazing finish to a good game.

Not to mention that Jordy Nelson catch over the middle that was reviewed was astoundingly, explicitly a bounce and it got upheld on review. It led to 3 pts if I remember right. I don't know who the review guy is, but I saw them fuck the Cowboys over like 5 times that year on astoundingly clear plays. Somehow Dez could be overturned as inconclusive as that was, but somehow a ball that spins forward onto its nose from hitting the ground is upheld in the same game.

Fuck that review guy.

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