|
|
01-23-2019, 04:32 PM | Topic Starter |
Threepeat!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Milk/Honey/Gazland
|
Jerry Jones wonders why Julian Edelman’s muffed punt was overturned
With all of the controversies over the weekend, one lost in the wash was the overturn of Julian Edelman‘s muffed punt. No one is talking about it primarily because the Chiefs got the ball back two snaps later anyway with an interception.
“Ball don’t lie,” CBS analyst Tony Romo joked on the broadcast after Daniel Sorensen‘s interception. But Cowboys owner Jerry Jones brought up the play when asked about the officiating in Sunday’s games. Jones still doesn’t understand what the NFL’s supervisor of officials, Al Riveron, saw on replay to overturn the fourth-quarter fumble, which the Chiefs recovered at the New England 28. In other words, even replay sometimes leaves a question. “The call on the punt, whether he touched it, you can never get it right, because it was called on the field as a touch and then later, you couldn’t see an angle that he definitely touched it,” Jones said, via Drew Davison of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “But the rule says you’re supposed to go with the call on the field if you can’t see an angle that he didn’t touch it. I don’t know if you can get everything [right].” The Cowboys have lost postseason games where questionable calls played a role. In the 2014 playoffs, Dez Bryant‘s fourth-down reception in the fourth quarter was overturned on replay based on the catch rule at the time. And the Cowboys didn’t get an obvious pass interference call on 49ers cornerback Deion Sanders in coverage against Michael Irvin late in the fourth quarter of the 1994 NFC Championship Game. “At the end of the day, it’s the official’s call and you live with that,” Jones said. “You depend on the integrity of the official, not necessarily his ability to make every call right or wrong. You assume that, and rightfully so, that there are no biases, and he’s just trying to make the right call. That’s part of sport.” https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/01/23/jerry-jones-wonders-why-julian-edelmans-muffed-punt-was-overturned/ |
Posts: 20,912
|
01-23-2019, 04:34 PM | #2 |
George Brett shit his pants
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: At the Bellagio
|
This is actually a call that probably didn't matter. We intercepted it on that same drive - then went down and scored.
|
Posts: 48,386
|
01-23-2019, 04:36 PM | #3 |
Thank you
Join Date: May 2014
|
|
Posts: 22,966
|
01-23-2019, 04:39 PM | #4 |
Mahomes > God
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Clinton, MO
|
|
Posts: 10,067
|
2 0 |
01-23-2019, 04:54 PM | #5 | |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
|
Quote:
I don't like it either, but I bet there's some reason for it. Perhaps it was just that every fumble became a touchdown for the punting team given the positioning of the players? |
|
Posts: 142,668
|
01-23-2019, 05:49 PM | #6 |
Thank you
Join Date: May 2014
|
|
Posts: 22,966
|
01-23-2019, 06:11 PM | #7 |
You don't faze me, Gobble.
Join Date: Dec 2005
|
|
Posts: 13,675
|
01-23-2019, 04:43 PM | #8 |
MVP
Join Date: May 2017
|
It didn't matter but it was still wrong. The call should have stood as called but the Patriots have always played under a different set of rules.
|
Posts: 10,605
|
01-23-2019, 04:53 PM | #9 |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
|
How does Jerry Jones not know that Edelman is a Patriot?
|
Posts: 142,668
|
01-23-2019, 04:56 PM | #10 |
Banned
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Kowloon
|
The ball DIDN'T hit his thumb, but the over angle showed that it bounced off Edelman's fingertips.
|
Posts: 848
|
01-23-2019, 04:57 PM | #11 |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
|
Isn't a fumble into the opponents end zone the Kenny Stabler rule?
But yeah, I don't see how Edelman could have clearly not touched the ball to overturn an initial call on the field. |
Posts: 43,908
|
01-23-2019, 05:01 PM | #12 |
Now you've pissed me off!
Join Date: Jan 2006
|
Ken Stabler rule has more to due with advancing a fumble on 4th down due to the Holy Roller play.
|
Posts: 74,934
|
01-23-2019, 05:05 PM | #13 |
Starter
Join Date: Apr 2017
|
Still would have saved us time, even if we had 30 more seconds at the end there, we might have had enough time to score a TD to win it.
Plus with them overruling that muffed punt, how can anyone trust them with the Hogan replay. |
Posts: 127
|
1 0 |
01-23-2019, 08:12 PM | #14 | |
Starter
Join Date: Dec 2018
|
Quote:
http://podbay.fm/show/1109282822/e/1...97?autostart=1 Warning: It features a Belichick Homer, Michael Lombardi. But he's right about this in my opinion. Basically the Patriots would have ran the clock out even more on their final drive to leave little time left for Mahomes as opposed to Andy Reid who's not caring about the clock at all. |
|
Posts: 454
|
01-23-2019, 05:08 PM | #15 |
I'm with the banned.
Join Date: Sep 2006
|
Jerry's drunk again. Big surprise.
|
Posts: 28,113
|
|
|