right at the top of the show, The, Asante Samuel, jr.
Interception, that was in his hands and I couldn't help, but
think last night back to Super Bowl. 42. When Asante Samuel
senior had the 17 and 0 clinching, interception in his
hands, just moments before
the David Tyree helmet. Catch after the,
Eli Manning Houdini escape
to deliver the football that game would have been over
if Dad holds It's on to the football. So at least
at least and I'm not trying to be snarky here,
at least there can be a meaningful conversation about
how to deal with it and move forward. Now, Asante seniors
catch was a lot easier,
mean, it was a diving attempt,
it would have been a great catch
by Asante Junior. If he held onto it and it looked like he
had, it was one of those. Well, the ball, hit the ground, he
didn't have full possession, they reversed it via replay
review, but
that, that moment felt like
The dagger, we're Midway through the third quarter it
17-7 and the charges would have the ball right there at the 35
up 10
and who knows what would have happened after that. But it
felt like as he was catching that ball. Or as the case,
maybe not catching that ball. That that was it early. Turn
out the lights, the party's over,
you know, to comments on that.
Look the play.
It wasn't that he,
you know, that
that he that he almost Eat a miracle catch instead. He
missed the first one.
Yeah, so the first show that show that one more time,
the ball is Right In His Hands. The ball is Right In His Hands. The
diving part of it
doesn't,
I don't know. To me, it's like he had an easy interception,
he bobbled it and then he tried to recover. That's an easy
interception Mike that I was trying to be nice. I guess
it was just like what Dad did
And the other thing is,
the other thing I would say is
I I was not sure about that free play. I really wasn't,
you know, it sure didn't pass the sniff test as
you know, absolutely obvious,
you know, that that the ball was
used or that that he used the ground to help him secure
the ball. I don't know, I didn't think there was enough there to
overturn it but I know I agree with you. It already. No, no
here. I agree with you, here's the problem. I was having at
the time and this gets into my second half experience,
watching the game on Amazon.
At some point my TV which was
15 feet away from an unimpeded router
kicking off fiber-based internet at high high high
speeds and I never have an issue. So it wasn't a me
problem. It was an Amazon problem, it was buffering every
3 seconds
and I can't tell you how frustrating it is to watch
a football game. When it buffers for three seconds and plays for
three seconds and buffers for three seconds and plays for
three seconds, and then I was doing the whole trying to fast
forward ketchup. So I actually missed when they came back and
said
that the
pass was an incompletion. But Peter, I agree with you and
this is why I hate the rule that
it's okay, for the ball to hit the ground. As long as the act
of it hitting the ground, doesn't assist. How about we
just say the ball can hit the ground. Let's go back to bird
Emanuel in 1999
and say, hey Burt, tough crap.
The ball shouldn't touch the ground
and this isn't an old man yells at Cloud. Take for a change.
I think there's something sacred about keeping the ball from
touching the ground and if the ball touches the ground it's
not a catch
then we don't have to get into this interpretation
of well. You know we did touch the ground but the ground
didn't help him secure the catch or he had possession
the touching the ground was just incidental. If it touches
the ground before you have secured, Ian, it's not a catch. Why
can't that just be
the real Peter?
Okay, Mike, it's the rule.
I know the only the only thing I know last night when
I watched that and I did not have the buffering problem on
the laptop,
but when I watch that
I said to myself, even though
I think it was, I forget whether it was Al or whether it
was Kirk, one of those guys said, well, this is probably
going to be overturned.
I said, I would not overturn this, this is there is not
Indisputable Visual Evidence
that
that the, that the ground, assisted him in making this
catch, or he secured it against the ground. Did it look like
there was a
decent to good chance that it did? Yes.
But you tell me there's indisputable Visual Evidence
that he didn't catch that ball
and the ball just happened to hit the ground while he caught it.
That's kind of how I saw it. But, you know, again,
they And it might my bigger issue with replay my
is that it's not being used for what it was put in to to fix.
And that is
to correct the obvious and
indisputably wrong calls
that play right there was not indisputably
wrong. That I, I mean, I think whether it was 5050 6040, it
was close.
And and you know to overturn a call like that is not why replay
was put in the NFL
amen. You're preaching to the choir, the 50 drunks in a bar
standard as Mike, Holmgren articulated it. When they
brought replay back years ago,
it should be something where we all know immediately. This is
a mistake that needs to be rectified and not something
that entails a frame-by-frame review, like the supporter
film.
To figure out whether or not the ball, touch the ground in
a manner that allowed Asante Samuel, Junior to make
the catch more easily. Again, it's a cleaner rule. If you just
can't let the ball touch the ground,
it's a far cleaner, replay standard if you say it has to be.
So obvious to anyone in a bar, and I envy the people in
the bar last night because they didn't have the buffering
problem, because they were watching the game via Direct.