the sticks. This is the first drive. It was fourth and and
three I believe, from the 35-yard line, right? Jail and
hurts rolls left
and forget about the red line. I'm going for the goal line.
Unbelievable directs traffic Devante Smith, What A Catch,
and then, you know, you can't see anything from the initial
angle to suggest. He did not secure the ball but he gets up
quickly they come up to the line of scrimmage.
Fox doesn't Just show us the key replay until after
the touchdown, and the extra point and back from commercial
Kyle, Shanahan didn't see
this angle. They sure as hell didn't put it on the video board
at Lincoln Financial Field where it's clearly incomplete.
So, no, red flag is thrown. No challenge is made.
And Chris, here's the most important thing and fox was
working pretty hard to give broadcast partner NFL, a pass
on this.
Mike, Pereira. And I love my Pereira, but I'm calling BS en.
/ are basically saying the league is
stuck with the same angles that we get,
and I know in the truck, they're looking at all
the different camera angles. And sometimes they find one late
and then they have to say G, do we do even show it at all? We
didn't find it in time we should have found it sooner,
the NFL's got accessing real time to all of those angles and
more. They have the Hawkeye system, they touted all
the time, they're in the command center at 3:45 Park.
Do and they've got everything there
every angle and they didn't see it either because that's one of
those plays where thanks to the expedited replay review, the
sky judge whatever name you want to apply to it. They could
have stepped in and said
after further discussion
The ball struck the ground. It's an incomplete pass. Kyle.
Shanahan shouldn't have even had to throw the red challenge
flag. So it wasn't just him, not throwing the flag and
I guess you could argue. Well he should have sensed something
was up. Oh he should have thrown the
red flag because the Eagles are moving fast to the line of
scrimmage, how many coaches throw red challenge fly based
simply on possibility because the offense is hustling,
you're throwing away. One of your two red flags. That's
right. And a timeout. When you have not seen it yourself and
none of your people have seen it after, that's a lot to
Active. Kyle Shannon, right right. And if he challenged and
he was wrong, everyone go! Oh, you're an idiot. You didn't
even see the
replay and you challenged it. What an idiot you are.
It's again, it's
another one of those like, you know, Jermaine Pratt with
the Bangles game. You can't win sometimes when you're in
professional sports. You can't. But like it's
that's one. We're
like I'd like to see the NFL jump in there.
You know Ava
what was the number one Telltale sign right away that
you didn't think that maybe it? Isn't a catch. What was
the number one thing? Exactly A Smith get okay, he knew so
right away. I mean, come on, we've all watched him. I'm
sitting there going, I
don't think he caught it. That's why he's doing. I'm
yelling this to my son and my wife. I don't think he caught
it. I don't think he caught. That's why he's doing this.
I mean, that was The Tell-Tale sign,
right? They hadn't been running the hurry-up offense at all
before that. So
that's one. Where, why can't the league? Just slow down play
for a minute and be like, we're going to see this the right way
and the referees going to put his foot.
The ball and be like Captain Morgan first second
and we're going to sit there and make sure we get it right.
Like that, that, that to me, is where the league or Sky judge
or somebody should step in and be like, hey, hey hey, they're
hurrying up, that's great. Hey get, you
know, hey Johnny Johnny, get on the ball here, stop in for
a second, we just got to see one more angle here before we let,
you know, blow the whistle for play. That's all I had to be
done.
And those that to me is a great Point.
Yeah. For. And, you know, for the same reason that summer
saying Shannon Nahan should have seen that frenetic effort
by The Eagles as a sign to throw the red flag?
That should have been assigned to the officials. And the 345
exact hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. I mean if you can
come in and kill a play during the play and do a mulligan
because the play ran for, you can say,
because really, what's
we've seen them huddle and do stuff all year, like it
the whole year. Now in this game, this is what I wanted to see
you get it right for sure. So yeah, that's where it bothers.
Let's let's let's trade. Let's take this all the way back to
the origin.
Of Replay and understand where this logic flows from, it's
very simple. They set up replay review. So that you have
a window to try. If you have that red challenge flag to overturn
the ruling on the field or the booth can Buzz down up until
the
moment that the next play is snapped until it's initiated.
So that tells the team that thinks they may be getting away
from something, to put the pedal to the metal, get up
there, and snap the ball to Short Circuit the whole
process. Is this is all
part of his strategy aimed at short-circuiting
the fair and just process of reviewing what happened.
So I think they're fully within their rights agreed.
And this is something I guarantee you. Somebody from
NFL network is going to say, the NFL is going to consider in
the offseason changing the mechanics to allow
the officials to pause the action so that an expedited review has
a fair chance of occurring
because that's ultimately what it comes down to, you don't get
a fair chance. It's if your pal Shanahan to decide whether or
not to throw the red flag, or if you're the sky judge,
expedited review Booth assistant, whatever
tip to figure out what's going on because they're trying
the team that's trying to get away with something, is trying to
short-circuit the whole process, that doesn't seem
right to me.
And if it doesn't seem right to me,
my sense is, it doesn't seem right to most people and maybe
it doesn't seem right to the league Chris and they'll do
something about. Yeah, hopefully. And again, it's,
we know how the game shook out Eagles one. We know that.
These are just things, I think we're looking at it as fans of
the sport to guys, to love the sport. That that, you know, we
just go ahead, you can clean that up and fix that. So we
don't have to worry about that.
You know, that Pi being the difference of a game
where it's oh, wait, the Eagles won, 28, 27.
And now all we're talking about
on a Monday morning, is
that play that? Maybe they didn't win the game with if
they didn't have that. So, you know, it didn't come back to
haunt the NFL or anybody else there. But yes, as much as we
saw the referees group huddle.
Listening to their ear, the whole year.
That's one where yeah, you wish they could do that and see that
the fix was in a little bit. That obviously the Eagles were
worried about something. Let's slow it down. Let's get a look.
Let's get it right
and move on from there but yeah just
big moment the game you got that play right there.
7-nothing. Wow. Brock / d right after it and you just felt like
the 49ers were hanging on for dear life, kind of after that
slugging it out being physical playing tough but
just you know, No, with a leg chopped out from underneath
them, as far as how they can compete against the,
maybe the most well-orchestrated team at all
football, and Philadelphia,
before we put that Devante, Smith play completely to bed.
Let's give Kyle. Shanahan an opportunity to explain why he
didn't pull out the red flag and throw it on the field and
get what would have been
the ball First and Ten
from his own 35 here. Shanahan
On the first drive, the replace pretty clearly showed that
the body's not catch that ball.
Why was the challenge? Because the replay we saw dinner
definitely show that. They actually we saw one up on
the scoreboard. I was going to throw one anyways, just to hope
to take the chances but they showed
one up on the scoreboard
that didn't have all the angles you guys saw
and that looked like a catch. And so we want to waste of time
out which we definitely would have if we didn't see that but
then I heard they got a couple other angles and you guys end
up seeing later
at all.
Not a catch.
Yeah, it's I mean, that's the thing he could, I guess he
could have called timeout and hope that somehow
the fox truck would have produced that real play faster, right?
And a fox is skating
with no scrutiny whatsoever on this.
That's part of the obligation is to have eyes on that board
and spot. The replay find the Angle and this wasn't some
obscure angle after sifting through 20 different cameras
that that's
an angle,
trailing the catch. I'd like to think that
of all the people that are sitting in that truck
try to produce a game and this would apply to any network,
you got eyes on those screens and somebody's going to say,
hey 27, there it is. Pull that one up up. There it is. The
balls on the ground. I don't know how that doesn't come up
sooner than it did. We didn't see it at all until
The commercial we didn't see it on the ensuing plays. We didn't
see it before the extra point. And I just I wonder whether
somebody was tempted to just pretend they didn't see it at
all.
I wonder I wonder what I was going to go back and DVR and
what they showed one replay
of like they a montage. I think going away to Commercial and
there was one right before they cut away where I went, I, you
know, got up.
I was like, I don't think he caught that ball
and then they came back and they showed that exact angle and you
Why's he didn't,
but it's a tough situation and and I think you know, the thing
you brought up is probably the best way a coach can combat
that,
you know, coaches. Yes, timeouts or their deer and we
know how important they are. But first half timeouts. Okay.
They're not the end of the world for a situation that
situation like that. Maybe you do burn it and go. Okay. We're
going to take a my team. It's emotional. Let's take a deep
breath anyways and
let's take another look at this. Then I'll play right here.
Let's regather ourselves anyway.
Way. So we're at full strength to stop them inside the ten.
Maybe that's the only thing you do any differently but it's
a tough situation
and yes you'd like to think that this day and age 2022,
97,000 cameras at every freaking game
that you could see a replay within
10 seconds after it happening
to know like, whether that should be challenged or not. So
that's, that's disappointing to you can blame Shanahan to
a degree certainly, but you're right, the NFL Fox. Everybody's
got to take a little blame in that. That was a very tough
situation.
And the easy fix. And this is a great idea from you and I'm
going to pull that thread and try to articulate it, and maybe
get some people to listen and
act on it. There has to be a protocol in place
for pressing pause
because this isn't a strategic. It's know what, you know what.
When you see exactly it is not strategic, they're not in
a hurry up offense. We're not going in a hurry up offense,
right? Right. We're not trying to catch the defense in
a favorable
selection of players. Exact, we're trying to get the ball.
Snaps so so somebody doesn't have a chance to go back and
take away that thing. We got that, we shouldn't have gotten
worse as we know it.
And we want to get this ball snapped before they figure it
out. There's just something viscerally wrong with that. And
we've accepted it for 20 plus years. It's just part of
the game is part of the strategy. All we got away with one go,
snap the ball, snapped the ball,
snapped the ball. Yes, we got away with it.
What kind of message does that send?
If you're fast enough, you get away with s***?
Come on. I think, I think the time has come and that's why
these big Standalone game. It's
where we all watch
because these things happen from time to time when they
play in nine games at once, very rarely does one thing, pop
out above everything else and usually it happens in
a prime-time game where we're all watching. This is a moment
to have and there are multiple things that came out of yesterday
where the league can say,
we should look at this.
We should look at that. We should look at that. So we're
just trying to help make the game better. We're not trying
to bring anybody down. We're trying to avoid these
situations in the future because
you're right Chris they got lucky. They got lucky that
the thing with the Mulligan. And the Chiefs Bengals game
didn't affect the outcome of the game,
and they got lucky
that that didn't affect the outcome of the game. Because if
it had its all, we'd be talking about all week long. That's
right. That's right. You know, and, you know, fortunately,
we're not. But yeah, these are things that I think for
the betterment, the better
of the sport. We'd like to see him fixed, you know, going
forward, we can make it better and we don't we don't see that
in any other sports, right? I mean, we don't, we don't want
to see that. I'm watching the Australian Open, we don't go.
It was out. Hurry up serve the ball. It was out there.
Hey
kid, give me a ball. It was it was a home run. That was foul.
Hurry up Pitch. It one more time because I don't want them
to figure out. It was really a foul
that's where we're better than that. We've evolved as humans
in the sport and everything. That's where we can get better.
But hey, the more important thing is and let's not forget
about this.
The Eagles are going to the frickin Super Bowl, right?
There are damn special team.
It stinks the way that game unfolded jail and hurts
obviously not totally 100% yet. Yet. But I think, once they
realized the situation or Brock / D, they kind of play
conservative just said, let's just win the
game. Let's not worry about how we look or how many highlights
are on TV later on. So
really, really a lot of credit to them, Jalen hurd's Nixon
arianny the job he's done there Howie Roseman I mean just five
years ago
to be in the Super Bowl with that team and the kind of
rebuilt the team to where we're going. This is one of
the Better Built. Complete football teams we've seen in the league
the last few years. Years. I mean, there's not a real
weakness. You can look at anywhere.
It's it's, it's going to be cool. It really is. And then
you add in the fact of Andy Reid and Mahomes and it's
the Chiefs and the Eagles and all that.
Wow. I know I'm excited. It's like it's a great Super Bowl
matchup and we got to, you know, Clash of the Titans type
teams here and they have seen the NFC.
When you look at the overall offensive production of
the Eagles yesterday, if you would just cut it short of their
total touchdowns, you would say. I think they lost the game
wasn't right for powering
offensively 121. I think net passing yards. Yeah, but but
they still got it.