From what I saw : The Titans were not set when the ball was snapped , Peter Boulware was the only reason the Titans even got another chance at the TD , And can you imagine what would have happened if the TD would have stood? The real deal here is the refs come up with a compromise and the Titans proved they couldn't get into the endzone without cheating .
I must be a homer because I can't wait for next season....but you gotta admit, this has been a very unpredictable season good and bad for several teams.
You do realize "everybody else" includes the mighty COWBOYS RITE? I bet the Boys can beat the snot of those Titans! Everybody SUCKS! Go Cowboys!
I just saw a closer look on CNNSI. Earlier in the drive, Dyson caught a ball with only one foot in bounds. Should have been incomplete. Who was the offsides called on? Boulware? The last two plays, it appears like Boulware is taking his time to get back. If he made contact with an offense player, the ball is dead. I believe however if he was just offsides and did not make contact then the Titans would have had a free play and the TD would have counted. Anyways, the Titans did not have 7 men on the line of scrimmage. They technically did have a free play with :00 and could not score. Game over. Ravens win.
True, true. I was looking at his feet not at the defender. Good call by the refs then. --- It's easy to question a bad play call after a loss, but I'll ask why did the Titans run the same play? I don't care how big the O-Line is or how strong McNair is, the play did not fool anyone. It was a gamble.
Encroachment is encroachment. Would you have prefered that the refs change the rule and not make it a deadball foul?
mnf showed that replay slightly less than they did the theismann/LT hit, and there was no way dyson would've gotten his foot down, defender, or no defender. tough call, but it was the wrong one.
Dyson was push in the shoulder with his toe just touching or just off the ground. When pushed his head went downward and his heel upward. It's physics! Try it.....
who are you, jim garrison? i don't really feel like running in circles over this -- his entire body was leaning out of bounds before he even caught the ball. if you want some physics to work on, please explain how he was going to stop his forward motion, reverse the swing of his leg, and get his foot inbounds, all within the inch of field he had to work with. it was a great catch, a rare decent throw from mcnair, but he was out of bounds. it was the wrong call.
He doesn't have to stop his forward motion; all he has to do is tap the toe on his back leg on the turf inbounds. It was right there as he was hit. Thank you, Mr. Clay Shaw!
Ric, It was the right call, as the rule states that a player can be ruled to have possesion of the ball with NO feet in bounds if he is pushed out. Since the call was ruled a catch on the field, there was no conclusive evidence to over turn the play. Now, as for encroachment, they DID NOT CALL ENCROACHMENT. It is a dead ball foul and the whistle was blown AFTER the play, that is offsides, not encroachment. The referees chickened out, and huddled and CHANGED the call to encroachment, they should have let the play stand. As for the Titans, they are a horribly coached offense...HORRID !!! Eddie George is the biggest WUSSY running back I have ever seen, he IS SCARED !!! DaDakota
The whole point of officials in any sport is to get the call right. After all was said and done, the RIGHT call was made regardless of what the referee said. The officials made 2 mistakes on that last play and both benefited the Titatns. 1. I am fairly certain an official never spotted the ball and put it in play. I may be wrong, but I believe Bruce Matthews spotted the ball and put it in play. 2. The Titans had 6 men on the LOS. This is indisputable and was missed by the officials. The dead ball offsides was the right call. It was good that the officials huddled and made the right call. Fischer is even quoted as saying that although he didn't like it, it was the right call.
I remember the referee spotting the ball; he picked it up from Dyson and husteld to get the ball down. He may not have cleared the neutral zone before Matthews snapped though! Besides that's what Billick said and we all know that he is a lying dog!
actually, the rule states it can be ruled a catch if the player would have come down inbounds sans push, and that, imo anyway, wasn't the case last night. and the abc crew agreed, fwiw. dyson was falling out of bounds before he even caught that ball -- there was no way he was going to reverse his forward momentum (and years of physics lessons) and drop his right foot. the push was irrelevant. the dyson catch is debatable, the final play is not. when boulware hit mathews trying to get back in position, the play was dead. officials have every right to huddle and discuss the play afterwards, regardless of the ruling on the field (you might remember, they did so a few years ago on a certain wycheck pass). and reversing the home team's winning TD is hardly the act of a chicken, da dakota. since i'm not a fan of either team, i appreciated them taking the time to get the call right. tennessee had it's chance, they blew it. oh, i think george is tough enough, he's just hurting and baltimore owns him. as for tennessee's offense, i've long grown tired of hearing how horrible it's coached -- will you ever open up to the idea that, save for george, it's a collection of average to mediocre players? i mean, how many coaches are they going to have to discard before this finally becomes clear to you?
I think Oilers fans are well within their rights to roast that fat hairless b*stard every chance we get. He and his team tortured us for far too long. Firing Bum, trading Earl, hiring friggin Hugh Campbell, hiring Jerry Glanville, Stagger Lee, Buffalo, the Cincy massacre, Ian Howfield, the KC choker, the Denver miracle, the Jacksonville posturing, Dome "improvements", Cody friggin Carlson replacing Warren Moon. Oh the horror...
It was a dead ball foul, so the play never happened. And to call Eddie George a wussy? That's crazy. He's not running well because he's hurt and his offensive line is crap. Bud Adams could've been given fellatio by every single person in Houston, and he still would've moved the team. He constantly jerked the city of Houston around about moving the team.
