re: Top Billin - Derek Stingley

A screenshot doesn’t show how the ball moves after that point. They showed it on the broadcast, it clearly hit the ground while neither player had control. The craziest thing is how could they rule that a UT completion at all...?

Yea i think he was out of bounds regardless. Great play

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Clearly incomplete.

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I must have looked at a different angle. Can you screen shot the angle where the ball touched the ground?

It was not an interception.




But should have NEVER been called a completion. That was horseshite.

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It was not definitive that ball hit the ground. It was dark and blocked by the WR knee and you could assume it hit the ground but there was no conclusive evidence it hit the ground. I’ve watch the replay 10 times.

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You're watching the wrong thing. The ref explained during the game that the reason for the incomplete ruling is that Johnson was out of bounds while touching the ball BEFORE Stingley was able to gain clear possession of the ball.

I believe that is the correct call. How it was ever ruled a completed pass on the field is beyond me. Johnson CLEARLY never had more than one hand on it after his initial touch of it.

Had the play happened away from the sideline, I believe it would have been ruled an interception.

Great play nonetheless.

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ball pretty clearly hit the ground on one of the camera views

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Not on any view that was broadcast. Just finished looking at the play again and there was only one view where it was possible to opine that it may have touched the ground - if you 'saw' it you must have x-ray vision.

Now - I'm ok with the incomplete decision because it was not clear when total control of the ball was obtained - and one or both of the players had touch out of bounds prior to demonstrated complete control,

It was an interception - no doubt about that - except for possible out of bounds = hard to tell.