That is a bullshite rule

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When the ball touches the plain, its a touchdown, play is over.

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Not necessarily

Per Mike Pereira:
"Look, here is the rule. If you’re going to the ground you have to hold onto the ball when the ball hits the ground…Going to the ground trumps lunging/reaching to try and get extra yards or score a TD. You do that at your own risk. It’s incomplete…just ask Dez"

The rules is the rules

Had he been a halfback running the identical entry to the end zone, TD.

I don't get why there is a difference.

Straight from the horses mouth

ARTICLE 3. COMPLETED OR INTERCEPTED PASS

1) secures control of the ball in his hands or arms prior to the ball touching the ground; and
2) touches the ground inbounds with both feet or with any part of his body other than his hands; and
3) maintains control of the ball after (a) and (b) have been fulfilled, until he has the ball long enough to clearly become a runner. A player has the ball long enough to become a runner when, after his second foot is on the ground, he is capable of avoiding or warding off impending contact of an opponent, tucking the ball away, turning up field, or taking additional steps (see 3-2-7-Item 2).

Note: If a player has control of the ball, a slight movement of the ball will not be considered a loss of possession. He must lose control of the ball in order to rule that there has been a loss of possession.

NFL rule

The man did all three

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Didn't do #1

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bullshite.

OK.

This

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AFTER he already had both feet, a elbow and a knee inbounds.

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All that shite doesn't matter. He was going to the ground in the act of catching the ball. Because of that, he has to maintain control of the ball through the entire motion of going to the ground. He did not. Breaking the plane of the end zone only matters for an established ball carrier. He had not yet become one.

His right hand is under the ball. There was no bobble. You cannot show the ball touching the ground. It was a catch.