The 49er fumble and the reffs

[KillerGoose]

(12-13-2021, 01:55 PM)pally Wrote: Do you mean that play where the ball carrier was clearly down? or the one where they were blowing the whistle because the player's forward process was clearly stopped as the Bengals had pushed him 5 yards backwards?  

neither play was a fumble

The second one. The fumble occurred a split second after the first whistle. I think it is more frustration than anything - no one is saying that it should have been a fumble, just a frustratingly close call to being a fumble.