Look at the video at about 1:06
The ball hits his hands and goes straight to the ground. When the ball hits the ground, you can see he has only his right hand on the SIDE of the ball. His left hand is not touching the ball. This is not possession and control. Incomplete.
Possession is control, two feet down, and you need to make a “football move”.
Watch right at 1:06. As his left foot slides on the turf, he has full possession and two feet down. His foot sliding is his “football move”. He starts to go down and his left hand doesn’t come off the ball until the ball touches the ground.
I’ll grant that it was probably a catch, a fumble, and a fumble recovery. But it was a catch.
Not true. Glenn caught the ball and fell to the ground. He got up before he was contacted by the defensive player. Getting up constituted the “football move” a player has to make, with possession of the ball, for the reception to be considered made. The fumble into the end zone came after he stood up.
Not logically consistent.
The ball definitely came out of his hands when it went to the ground. He had to have exhibited control BEFORE that point.
I claim that he did because he tried pushing off with his left foot and that’s his football move.
A “football move” doesn’t have to be much. . .it just has to be more than the continued motion of the act of catching.
Actually, I don’t really care whether or not Glenn caught the ball. I just care that Dallas lost. However it happened, rules or no rules. End of story.
I watched it again a few times. OK, I don’t feel like Glenn was robbed on that call anymore. Even if it was questionable, there’s probably not enough evidence to overturn it. So it’s probably a catch, fumble, Glenn fumble recovery, another fumble, out of bounds in the end zone, safety.
Interestingly, the YouTube clip of the Terry Glenn play was removed sometime Tuesday afternoon/evening at the request of the National Football League because it was used “without permission”. Wonder if that’ll now be a standard procedure by the NFL…?
Yep, because if we’re allowed to see 10 second clips of NFL games, NO ONE WILL EVER WATCH THE NFL AGAIN.
Good job NFL.
The NHL has (wisely) embraced youTube. Of course when you’re the NHL you need to take some risks.
I think that the NFL probably thinks that it’s going to host videos to get eyeballs to the NFL website. Of course, it never works that way. It will be some intern’s job to get videos up. Clips will never get up fast enough. It will be poorly edited. It will be preceeded by commercials. It won’t be searchable. There won’t be any archives.
Just let someone else (e.g. youTube) do the work for you, and embrace it.
The NFL is funny. It’s hard to argue with their decisions. . .the “no fun league” policies, all the uniform restrictions, the fines, because it has just grown and grown in popularity (as opposed to the NBA).
But, they’ve definitely made some boneheaded decissions, most notably the launching of their network, which has allowed the viewing public and the media to perfectly identify the “saturation point” of NFL coverage.