What God-Awful Refereeing Today

Wrecked said:
At some point, the conferences are going to have to quit relying on insurance salesmen (no offense to insurance salesmen intended) and hire full time officials and pay them accordingly while holding them responsible for their performance.
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Does the NFL now use full time professional referees? They didn’t use to, but they might now.
 
Wrecked said:
At some point, the conferences are going to have to quit relying on insurance salesmen (no offense to insurance salesmen intended) and hire full time officials and pay them accordingly while holding them responsible for their performance.
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Doesn't the NFL struggle to do this anyway? Or did they get their öööö together?
 
Dhatura said:
Obviously still concussed...
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You can get a concussion without a direct blow to the head per some research. Watching the replay I think Harrison sustained the concussion, whatever degree it was, when he face planted into the ground. There's a still shot image where it's almost as if his face mask isn't there as his helmet was so smashed into the turf.
 
The Champ said:
He gets forward progress to the last point of his body being in bounds, and not airborne. It doesn’t matter how the ball is positioned in relation to the sideline
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It's like a toe tap on the sidelines. You can catch the ball when it is physically past the boundary, but if you get the foot down in bounds it establishes you as in bounds with forward progress wherever the ball is. When you leave your feet again you don't get additional forward progress. It would be obvious to everyone how to call this one if it was his foot taking a step in bounds instead of a hand.
 
interchange said:
It's like a toe tap on the sidelines. You can catch the ball when it is physically past the boundary, but if you get the foot down in bounds it establishes you as in bounds with forward progress wherever the ball is. When you leave your feet again you don't get additional forward progress. It would be obvious to everyone how to call this one if it was his foot taking a step in bounds instead of a hand.
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Yes, you cannot catch a pass with one foot in and launch yourself with the ball being placed where it was when you landed out of bounds. It is spotted where it was at the last moment your foot was on the ground in bounds. That's why players hold the ball out as they go out of bounds. It's where the ball is, not where your foot is. The exception to that is the plane of the EZ. You don't have to touch the ground in the EZ, just break the plane in bounds. This is why a player can launch himself at the pylon in the air with the ball out of bounds but hold his hand out in bounds as it passes the pylon. TD. His body is in bounds as it breaks the plane with the ball beyond as well. The GL extends OOB. I saw Michael Vick actually do this once when he was the Falcons QB.
 
stinger78 said:
This is why a player can launch himself at the pylon in the air with the ball out of bounds but hold his hand out in bounds as it passes the pylon. TD. His body is in bounds as it breaks the plane with the ball beyond as well. The GL extends OOB. I saw Michael Vick actually do this once when he was the Falcons QB.
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Actually they changed that rule in the offseason after that Vick play. The goal line no longer extends OOB so it wouldn't be a touchdown anymore.

I remember that play well too, extremely heads up move from him.
 
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