Nevertheless, my heart is still in Green Bay and that Dez Bryant reversed after review.
I agree with Tim Collinshaw about the catch and the NFL:
"And we know the NFL lost this battle with common sense in Green Bay on Sunday when the Cowboys lost possession of the football at the Packers’ 1-yard line after referee Gene Steratore’s now infamous reversal.
I’ll say this once again. Overturning Dez Bryant’s catch did not cost the Cowboys the game. It cost them the lead that they almost certainly would have taken on the next play or two. The Cowboys would have then gone for a two-point conversion and led the Packers by either one or three points with four minutes left. To assume Aaron Rodgers could not have overcome that is to disregard the rest of what we had witnessed in the second half.
But there is a disconnect between not just Cowboys lovers but football fans in general when something that seems so obviously a catch — a player grabs the ball with two hands, transfers it to one hand, takes three steps and dives for the end zone — and what league rules allowed Steratore to determine is simply the incomplete “process” of making a catch.
The loosely defined part of the rules definition about making a move common to the game has to go. It’s too fuzzy. Cowboys Vice President Stephen Jones is a member of the rules committee, and he said after the game that they spend a lot of time on this particular rule. It’s clear they need to spend some more and allow the referee the ability to use common sense if nothing else."
Yes, take a look at this rule and let a catch, specially an incredibly athletic catch like this, be a catch.
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