re: This Is Why The Seahawks Won, Regardless of Bad Call

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Of course not, it has to do with possession or not, which has everything to do with simultaneous POSSESSION.

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hmmm

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Rule 8, Article 3, Item 5: If a pass is caught simulataneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control.

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Notice the word "control"

It has nothing to do with a completed catch. NOTHING. It also has nothing to do with who touched the ball first...it is who controls the ball first

Jennings has the ball, with two hands and at some point in the fall one of Tate's hands lets go (which does happen) it is no longer eligible to be "simultaneous"

Now if on the way down Jennings lost control of it, then it would have been able to be "re-controlled"...but he didn't he had control of it all the way to the ground

YOU.ARE.WRONG.