What is a catch/Tate TD ?

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(10-19-2015, 07:27 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: That's why. He caught the ball, controlled it, and took two steps. That's possession. At that point, it's a TD. The fact that he then lost it is irrelevant.

With Eifert, the fact that he was going to the ground is what makes it a completely unrelated issue. When you are going to the ground, you have to maintain control the whole time to have possession. It's a dumb rule, but Tate was not going to the ground. 

He took one step and then lost it (almost at the same time).

It wasn't a catch.

It's not like Tate stopped gripping the ball and was getting ready to spike it when it was knocked out because he was still securing it.

(10-19-2015, 11:05 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Half a nano second is all Tate needs to have possession. Those two steps he took with control of the ball was what mattered. 

That's not possession if it's half a nano second.  You need to have clear possession of the ball and complete the catch, which I don't even get why people are arguing it.  The dudes on Around The Horn are going nuts over it and I want to roll in there and tell them they're stupid.

And he didn't take two steps with the ball, he barely got a foot down a fraction of a second before the ball was stripped.

You need to have clear possession and make a football move (or take two steps), which there might be a bunch of black and white like "two steps" or "a football move" and sometimes it gets blurry, but anyone who knows anything about football knows that he never completely had control of the ball and it wasn't a catch.