I have finally learned my lesson and have intentionally not watched the video. Can you describe it for me please?
Dickson tried the dropkick onside against the Bears this year and had negative results with that play as well. I’m all for introducing innovation into an NFL game and I think dropkicks are cool but a dropkick onside attempt doesn’t seem like the best idea.
I didn’t watch much of the game but was there any opportunity for him to dropkick PATs or field goals?
Having RG3 flashbacks watching Lamar Jackson right now.
Basically his foot is completely caught in the ground, as the tackler rolls over his leg, and looks like it being steam rolled from ankle to mid shin, while the upper part is still vertical.
I was watching the game live and they did not show a single replay of the injury during the game. They even announced that it was gruesome enough they were not going to give a replay. I think most people watching the game didn’t see it. I also won’t watch it; the Alex Smith leg break this year was really bad and they replayed that. I’d hate to see what they won’t replay. 
I felt for the guy though. That man was in serious pain, you could see it on his face.
Refs, and the Chargers, trying hard to give the Ravens a shot.
I think it would eliminate some of these questionable goal-line calls if the NFL went (back?) to the rule that a runner has to actually be IN the end zone in order for it to be ruled a touchdown. Isn’t that how it used to be many years ago? Before someone dreamed up the idea of “breaking the plane?”
I actually thought the calls were fine, and I hate the Ravens.
He basically flat-out punted the ball to the Cowboys. A lot of people in the stadium were baffled.
“Breaking the plane” is actually a simpler concept. Otherwise you could have a situation of where the runner’s body is fully in or partially in the end zone, but the ball isn’t. Also, there would still be the rule on catches - you have to have 2 feet inbounds in the end zone for the catch to count. It’s simpler to just go by whether the plane was broken or not.
Overall, I agree. My comment was about the call on the field of a defensive touchdown that was overturned on appeal. And just to be clear, I dont think the refs actually wanted the Ravens to have a shot, anymore than I think the Chargers did too.
The ball and both feet have to be in the end zone. That’s my proposed rule change. Let’s cut out all this other bullshit.
Almost. The ball did touch the ground though so it was a drop kick.
Time to stick a fork in the Ravens; they’re done.
Chargers-Chiefs AFC title game would be a real sight to behold.
Some serious Blake Bortles garbage time stats there for Lamar.
Thanks for the info about the kicker. Sounds…different. I like the idea of a dropkick.
Had the Seahawks won and the kicker not recovered quickly, would they have been allowed to replace him on the roster for a playoff game next week? Where would they have gotten a kicker from, if so? Is this like the emergency backup third-string goalie in the NHL hired from the ranks of whoever happens to be in town at the time?
They probably would have put Janikowski on Injured Reserve, which means he’s off the roster until next season but still on the team, and replaced him with one of the many free agent kickers who bounce from team to team as kickers get injured or fired for poor performance.
I actually wondered why that wasn’t a fumble. He lost control of the ball going down, and when his knee hit, it didn’t seem to me like he had possession of the ball. He had it in his hands very briefly, but to me it didn’t look like control of the ball, but I’m always confused about how much control you need to exhibit for these things.
IIRC, it was his elbow, not his knee, that hit first, and, when that happened, he was automatically down. He had control of the ball when his elbow bit.
But damn, the Chargers should have won that in a runaway. Between Green’s fumble, conservative play calling, and spotty defense in the 4th, they almost gave it away. Of course, LA fans deserve that.
Point(s) of order: If you’re talking about the Gordon “fumble” that Baltimore took all the way back, the call on the field was never a defensive touchdown. Whistles were blown and the play was dead before the Ravens player even got his hands on the ball. Also, it wasn’t an appeal; since the call on the field was actually a Chargers TD, those are automatically reviewed (and here got reversed to Gordon called down before crossing the goal line).
(Sorry to be pedantic, but being pedantic is sort of my jam.)
I have no dog in the Chargers/Ravens fight. But I thought the previous play at the end of the third quarter, with the catch and the roll by the receiver, pretty clearly showed the ball breaking the plane before he was touched. And then I also thought the ball in Gordon’s hands broke the plane before he was down. But my opinions were overruled twice by the top men in the NFL offices in New York.