To those saying Brooks didn’t have possession

Watch the replay on YouTube at .25 speed. It was the right call because Brooks never did secure it even though I thought otherwise last night.

Somebody always has to drop a steamer on the party.

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Let’s say Brooks recovers a fumble in the middle of the field and returns it for a big gain or TD. Upon review they notice his knee was down simultaneously with his grasping the ball. You know damn well he would’ve been called down there. No “football move” to prove possession, subjective nonsense required.

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Counter argument: Let’s say the exact play we saw happens in the middle of the field, but the Alabama player actually recovers it inbounds after it bobbles out of Brooks’ hands. Do you think they call that a recovery by LSU (e.g. they say Brooks had recovered and was down) or a recovery by Alabama?

Without getting into the actual letter of the rule again.. Based on all of the loose ball plays I’ve seen over the years, I don’t think they call it dead in this scenario even though Brooks has two hands on it and a knee down. I’ve just seen too many cases where it’s still considered a loose ball, regardless of whether the player’s knee is down, until someone actually tucks it.

That being said - yes, in your scenario I think we probably get screwed as well. Though a lot would depend on whether the ref blows the whistle, since at that point it’s dead and can’t be reviewed further.

Before someone asks me, I don’t think Kellen Mond should have been called down either.

There is a thread discussing this and you decide what you have to say is so important it needs its own thread to talk about what’s been said in another thread?

Correct, Brooks recovered the ball, possessing it securely with two hands and his knee on the ground, thus ending the play before the TE ever touched the ball.

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Somebody always has to drop a steamer on the party.

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there is a point to the thread.

there are those who miss the point.

1/4 speed, is that how we want to call a game?

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1/4 speed, is that how we want to call a game?

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No, but maybe how we REVIEW the play.

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Watch the replay on YouTube at .25 speed. It was the right call because Brooks never did secure it even though I thought otherwise last night.

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There is absolutely no way you can say he didn’t have possession for the split second that bammer touched.

OP is 100% correct in that the play lacked evidence necessary to overturn the call on the field.

Most blatant frickery I’ve seen in a long time