Think games aren't scripted?

[CJD]

(12-26-2022, 11:14 AM)Au165 Wrote: This is why incompetence is the more likely issue. Stevenson should have been whistled dead for forward progress so we also got a call of incompetence, but ours literally sealed the game.

That fumble got people breaking out the rule book haha. I saw Reddit conversations about "he wasn't down because the rulebook says your forward progress isn't stopped unless you are 'restrained', which Stevenson obviously wasn't." Which then prompted the opposing side to bring out similar passages about what forward progress is etc. It was a mess.

I've always felt like forward progress is a bit of a sham. If a player wants to stay up and try and fight for yards, I say let them.  Kelce did the same thing, the only difference was Kelce was strong enough to never stop moving forward. 

If they are pushed back, you can give them their forward progress once the play is over, but I don't see why the whistle needs to be blown the second the player stops moving forward. If you don't want to risk turning the ball over, get down.

But obviously I understand it's in the rule book so it's more a disagreement with the rules rather than an opinion on whether that particular play should or should not have been whistled dead by the letter of the rules.

I do think the slow motion replay made it seem more obvious than it was that the whistle should be blown, but it also may have just been a "payback call" for not giving us the obvious Mac fumble for a touchdown. The only reason that last fumble even mattered is because they botched the first fumble, after all.