Looks like his foot was on the goal line when he dropped the ball, so I’m not sure I understand why it wasn’t a TD.
The nose of the ball itself has to cross the plane. It’s the same rule as first downs. It doesn’t matter if the rest of his body is across the goal line, it’s not a TD if the ball doesn’t get there.
Likewise, it doesn’t matter if no part of his body crosses the goal line. As long as any part of the ball crosses the goal line (and he’s not down or out of bounds), it’s a TD. The same rule also applies when backed up to your own goal line. The forward progress of the ball is what determines the down. So, there’s only a safety if, after the snap, no part of the ball advances past the goal line.
His hand was in contact with the ball when he crossed the goal line, but he no longer had control. He had started to roll the ball forward onto his fingers around the 1 yard line.
The Colts lose K Spencer Shrader for the season with a torn MCL and ACL. Shrader was tied for the NFL lead with 13 field goals. The injury happened during an extra point attempt in Indy’s 40-6 win over the Raiders, and was flagged as roughing the kicker.
Yeah, that is the key. He lost the control of the ball before it crossed the plane of the end zone, therefore it was a fumble, and once it goes out the back of the end zone it becomes a turnover and a touchback for the other team.
If he waited until it crossed the plane before dropping it, it would have been a dead ball and it wouldn’t have mattered what happened to it because the play would be over with a touchdown.
I flipped on the Manningcast for the first time this year and they’re doing a celebrity interview. I don’t get it. I love the idea of the two of them breaking down football games with more insight than you’d get from standard announcers. Who the fuck is asking them to be a late night celebrity interview talk show? They’re not any good at it and it’s completely irrelevant. They’re talking about TV shows while big plays break in the background. I don’t understand why they take something that would obviously be great alone and fuck it up like this.
Edit: I guess maybe I shouldn’t jump the gun from watching for 5 minutes, maybe it’s better than it was. We’ll see.
Glen Powell is starring in that Chad Powers series they’re both producing based loosely on the bit Eli did at UPenn. It’s shameless self-promotion, but that’s not unexpected. The rest of them so far this season have been more or less normal, as far as I can tell
I haven’t seen a really good replay that shows the goal line view, but I am not convinced that he’d lost control before he crossed the plane. The fact that the ref REVERSED the call based on this is kind of nuts.
Sure, Demercado is a fucking moron and he deserves to be a laughing stock, but I swear the refs just decided this deserved to be a fumble on principle.
Look at this one and tell me that he had control when he crossed the goal line.
The Jags have unexpectedly taken a lead.
99 yard pick six by the Jaguars and the Chiefs are looking very doubtful as Super Bowl contenders.
At least the Chiefs still have the refs in their pocket. Clear interference, and the refs ignore it and gift the Chiefs the INT.
Jags got hosed by a blatant missed call on an interception play. It should have been a flag on the Chiefs but instead it was a turnover.
But what can you do, they’re the Chiefs.
Okay, I was wrong, this Manningcast was pretty good. They had guests, but the guests mostly talked football and they didn’t ignore the game for long stretches. During the second half of year 1 and year 2 of Manningcast they’d try to be a really bad version of the Tonight Show where they’d have celebrity guests on and they’d be talking about their movies while ignoring the game.
Were the refs upset that they had to call a pivotal penalty against the Chiefs? Like it was so blatant that they couldn’t swallow the whistle like they wanted to.
That was the clumsiest touchdown I’ve seen in a long time.
It looks like Mahomes is following the cunning “throw the ball somewhere regardless of who is there” strategy at this point.
It still boggles the mind that the NFL, for all its draft-ordering and salary capping, doesn’t grasp the value of parity. If a team has been a dynasty for long enough, the NFL shouldn’t be giving it ref help to keep it on top for longer. It should be reffing evenhandedly to let challengers have their chance.
From your lips to Goodell’s ears.
Also, love the penalty on Mahomes for calling back-to-back timeouts. I don’t remember seeing that before.
Just put it up and let your receiver do the work the refs find an excuse to call pass interference.
From a Chiefs fan:
Yes, that was an obvious non-called DPI that led to the interception. For the game, however, KC had 13 penalties for 109 yards. Jacksonville had 4 for 25. Do you really think the refs were in KC’s pocket the entire game?
Congrats to the Jags. They deserved to win the game. The TD scramble by Lawrence was nothing short of amazing.