American Eagle wrote:You don't think the withdrawn pass interference call during the Detroit-Dallas game was worth a rant?
From what I hear it likely was; I probably would have posted about it if I had seen that game, but I didn’t.
Edit:
So I looked that play up, and shockingly no, I don’t have a rant for that. I’m fine with the noncall.
I can definitely see why it’s controversial, there can be solid points made on both sides, but was it definitely the wrong decision? No; it legitimately could have gone either way.
If it had been called interference I would have been fine with that, but it was validly dismissed and I’m fine with that too. It was up to the discretion of the officials. As they explained to Stafford, you can face guard as long as you don’t make contact, and the replays seem to show this is what happened. The only contact I saw was the
reciever grabbing the
defender.
It’s an odd play for sure, thus Stafford’s remarks of ‘never seeing that happen’, but it’s not an instance of an unthinkable ‘how could they reverse that?!’ moment. The referees have the ability to pick up the flag after discussion.
If the defender had simply turned his head to find the ball there would be no discussion about this; it wouldn’t have been called and people would have understood. I think the only reason there is controversy is because people aren’t used to seeing the defender block without turning, and thus automatically think it has to be a penalty because although there are legal ways to do it it is extremely rare to see. Probably 99% of the time the defender doesn’t turn it
is interference, so like I said it’s definitely understandable why it caused an uproar. It’s too bad though, because with everyone insisting it should have been a penalty it prevents us from considering it the rare 1% play of stellar defense and seeing it as a great football moment instead of a controversial one.
I almost wish I did take issue with that though, it would make it less upsetting that we’re still just a single play away from a perfect season.