The issue is that the play is over the instant the reciever has possession and ball breaks the plane -- so you can't really compare it to any situation anywhere else on the field.
The call appeared to be correct. While watching the game in real-time, most of us (with no rooting interest on either side) thought that it should have been ruled a successful try.
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Idly musing...
What I'd like to know is if there are people still on Bourbon St. drinking from last night.
I could see going all night and then go get breakfast and then the hotel to pass out. But you have to be truly .... something ... to keep it up into the next day.
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The announcers mentioned something about a "second act" guideline to the possession rule -- the receiver is supposed to maintain possession as he goes to the ground, but the receiver can also demonstrate possession by actually doing something with the football. In this case, he caught it and then stretched it over the goal line, demonstrating possession before the defender knocked the ball out.
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Bengals fans might remember that this is the exact same call as was made a few years back in Tampa Bay when Michael Clayton stretched the ball over the goal line to score a game-winning touchdown and had it knocked out of his hands as he broke the plane.
The call on the field was incomplete pass, but it was overturned to a touchdown because of that very rule -- a play is over when the receiver demonstrates possession (in this case and the Saint's case: stretching the ball over the goal line) and the ball breaks the plane.
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Sure it can. The same play could happen anywhere. If it'd been called incomplete at the 50 then it's incomplete at the goal line. The issue is over the goal line and possession. We all saw he had it over the goal line so that's not at issue. The issue is possession and that can very easily be compared to elsewhere on the field
I imagine the Saints kicker is feeling pretty good today. A few months ago he was a nobody. Now he is one of the reasons the Saints won the Super Bowl. That was some great kicking.
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As someone who watched Jim Caldwell coach at his alma mater for almost a decade, that was a classic Caldwell call.
Caldwell loved the slow-developing running play on 3rd down. Loved it like Tony LaRussa loves making a double-switch or Dusty Baker loves batting his speedy CF leadoff. The more critical the need to convert, the more likely Caldwell was to call it.
And 9.9 times out of 10, it got the same result as it did last night.
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