Thread: Now Even the Seahawks Are Saying They Didn't Win the Game........

Originally Posted by blinddeafmute

I will pay one dollar to anyone that can show me a picture with indisputable evidence of Tate not having posession of the ball.

Until then, I will continue to believe that the majority of people are just blowing bullshit about replacement refs without having a clue....

So, heres the challenge, start hunting for pics or video that proves it should have been overturned. Ready, go.

P.s., I hope none of you cocksuckers are ever selected for jury duty....

BINGO!

Anyone come forward to collect yet?

(crickets chirping)

I didn't think so.

Every photo and replay I've seen from every angle shows Tate with a very plausible claim to possession when he and/or Jennings got two feet down on the ground. Rules clearly state that such a "tie" goes to the receiver and the booth officials (regulars not replacements, I repeat) could not find enough evidence to overturn it. Note that they had overturned other field calls prior so you can't say that they "weren't going to reverse anything".

The statement put out out by the NFL the next day--which was widely panned as a cover-up or CYA job--was entirely accurate:

Tate should have been flagged for PI beforehand but the proper result of the pass was correctly called--that was a TD CATCH pure and simple.

Originally Posted by MPBears68

BINGO!

Anyone come forward to collect yet?

(crickets chirping)

I didn't think so.

Every photo and replay I've seen from every angle shows Tate with a very plausible claim to possession when he and/or Jennings got two feet down on the ground. Rules clearly state that such a "tie" goes to the receiver and the booth officials (regulars not replacements, I repeat) could not find enough evidence to overturn it. Note that they had overturned other field calls prior so you can't say that they "weren't going to reverse anything".

The statement put out out by the NFL the next day--which was widely panned as a cover-up or CYA job--was entirely accurate:

Tate should have been flagged for PI beforehand but the proper result of the pass was correctly called--that was a TD CATCH pure and simple.

I rarely agree with PFT, but this article pretty much nails it.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...was-incorrect/

Originally Posted by Evernight

Sir, that horse was beaten to death and resurrected so it could be beaten again at least 42,000 times only an hour after it happened. The only things that will stop the talk are 1) a 1-2 week lull in the action (probably not) 2) The next major mishap to cost someone a game (highly likely) or 3) The real refs are brought back (hopefully)

Well, there's no resolution to this dead horse lol, but I'm going to make one more point about the regular vs replacement refs:

I watched the video cited in the article for the 68th time frame-by-frame and I (we will have to agree to disagree here) cannot see how anyone can definitively claim that Jennings had undisputed/uncontested "control" of the ball at any point in the play. The most generous interpretation I can come up with for Jennings is that he appeared to have two hands on the ball well into the air a tiny fraction of a second before Tate's second hand also contacted it (with Tate's first hand being there simultaneously with Jennings' first). It is literally a few frames difference which is tenths of a second max in real time. If you want to call that "definitive first control" then so be it, but it is so damn close in live action that I can't see how the regular refs would be reliably expected to call it differently with any certainty. Obviously, if it was indeed as clear and certain and obvious as so many are making it sound, the REGULAR booth officials would have seen fit to overturn it. They did not. And they did for other plays earlier in the game.

I agree completely that Green Bay got shafted on the play as a whole by the non-call on Tate for OPI at least but I don't see how anyone watching that in real time--fan, announcer, regular ref, replacement ref, etc--can say without bias that it was an obvious undisputed interception. Its just too close for the naked eye and the home team got the call (of "simultaneous catch") as so often happens.