The INT that wasn't

[MTK]

A TD after the INT that was reversed and we would have been up 17-7. It's tough to think about what could have been. Sigh.

[GhettoDogAllStars]

There are some people pointing to the fact that the ball wasn't secure when Rocky hit the ground. From my understanding, that is not reason alone to overturn the call. If the ball doesn't hit the ground, whether it moves or not is irrelevant. The ball can either touch the ground, but be secure -- in which case it's a pick. Or, it can avoid touching the ground and be insecure -- in which case it's also a pick.

Am I wrong?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by GhettoDogAllStars

There are some people pointing to the fact that the ball wasn't secure when Rocky hit the ground. From my understanding, that is not reason alone to overturn the call. If the ball doesn't hit the ground, whether it moves or not is irrelevant. The ball can either touch the ground, but be secure -- in which case it's a pick. Or, it can avoid touching the ground and be insecure -- in which case it's also a pick.

Am I wrong?

I think that's right. But in Rocky's case, it touched the ground and when he rolled over we saw it was insecure. So it was both in the same play, which means incomplete.

[birdz4gibbs]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

What did you guys think of the call to overturn the INT by McIntosh, which regardless was a great read and reaction by him.

I'm still not convinced there was indisputable visual evidence to overturn that call.

from what i saw it was a interception ..there wasn,t enough i thought to overturn the call but we are talking about dallas here too.yes i,m still a bit miffed over that one.

replays showed the ball didn,t touch the ground but i guess that blind hog we call an official saw his shadow yesterday in dallas.

[GhettoDogAllStars]

Originally Posted by birdz4gibbs

from what i saw it was a interception ..there wasn,t enough i thought to overturn the call but we are talking about dallas here too.yes i,m still a bit miffed over that one.

replays showed the ball didn,t touch the ground but i guess that blind hog we call an official saw his shadow yesterday in dallas.

I don't want to distract from the thread, or nitpick, but I am curious why you substitute commas for apostrophes. Is it habit? Did somebody swap the comma and apostrophe keys on your keyboard? Inquiring minds want to know.

[hail_2_da_skins]

It looked like an interception to me. I did not see enough evidence in the video replay to overturn the call. But then again, I am biased.

[TheBigD]

Originally Posted by hail_2_da_skins

It looked like an interception to me. I did not see enough evidence in the video replay to overturn the call. But then again, I am biased.

You are correct in that it depends on who is looking at it. I totally saw the movement of the ball and THOUGHT it hit the turf without having control of the ball. Was that enough to over-turn it? Not sure.

I can also see how Redskins fans would see it the other way around, or at least argue that there weren't enough evidence to reverse the call.

[BigSKINBauer]

i can say that ball did hi tthe ground and it wasn't an INT. Maybe there wasn't enough evidence to overturn it but that was not a catch and in the end the right call was made.

I am really impressed by rocky for the play but disappointed he didn't think getting the extra 3 yards to reach the endzone wasn't important enough. Maybe he was scared to get hurt but he really could have tried to get those yards, ESPECIALLY after seeing our goal line offense last week. He just jogged out at the end there.

[skinsfan_nn]

It was REALLY close. But I did think they would overturn the call on the field.

Especially with our luck, getting a call to go our way. SLIM CHANCE.

[Darrell_Green_28]

Im sure if it were the cowpokes that made the int they would have let the play stand as an int saying there was not enough conclusive evidence to overturn it.

[mredskins]

I am fairly sure it was not a int but, it did let out some the wind in our sail.

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

What did you guys think of the call to overturn the INT by McIntosh, which regardless was a great read and reaction by him.

I'm still not convinced there was indisputable visual evidence to overturn that call.

I agree - wasn't "indisputable" in my book.

It looked to me like Rocky had the ball wedged between his thigh and his forearm. I didn't see any evidence of the ball wobbling as he hit the ground - maybe it did, but the video didn't show it.

What would be real nice is if someone could get a slow-mo replay of this for us...

[skinsguy]

As much as it sucked to see the call over turned and as much as it turned out to be a game changer, the review actually was correct. It was close though.

[SouperMeister]

One thing I've come to realize as a Skins fan, we cannot depend on the refs to save us. The Skins just have to make more plays and take the refs out of the equation.

[GMScud]

That play was a perfect example of why the football gods are against us. We just simply don't have plays like that go our way. No one outside of skins fans wanted to see us win. Fox/ESPN make the Cowboys out to be a feel good story, and Tony Romo is this year's media darling. It was a Cowboy's call, and a questionable reversal.