re: Titans' Hooker INT

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Ruling is very clear. Ball can touch the ground if first caught and controlled at any time before said touch.

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It looked virtually simultaneous to me. Ball didn’t bounce at all; kinda scraped the grass as the players hands were moving forward. I’d say the ground contact was incidental. Is that a thing?

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Ruling is very clear. Ball can touch the ground if first caught and controlled at any time before said touch.

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Agreed. The rule was clear and the application seemed appropriate. However….

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He did clearly have it in the air an instant before it touched the ground.

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I don’t know if I’d say his possession was “clear”. It literally looked like his hands touched the ball at the exact same time as the grass did…so unless we say touching is possession, this is debatable.

TL’DR version: this one was going to get upheld whether it was called incomplete or int. Just way to close to overturn.