01-31-2023, 03:28 AM
(01-31-2023, 02:23 AM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Burrow threw the ball directly into the ground, as he's known to do on broken screen plays. He just didn't get it close enough to Perine.
He also throws it at his the receiver's feet. There's no way they can determine that being hit didn't change the trajectory to make it go straight into the ground instead of at Perine's feet. That's why that clause is in the rule in the first place.
Burrow has two guys on him. One twisting him to the left and the other striking his arm. The fact that Joe rifled the ball doesn't mean that it wasn't physically affected and knocked off target. Burrow was just as "physically affected" in his throw as Mahomes. The officials simply decided they knew what he was doing and ignored the rule.
This is exactly where much of the NFL "bias" comes from. Officials who make calls based on what they think rather than what they see.
