Wow, that’s a lot of projecting.

A shitty parent would have let his kid continue to throw f-bombs and tantrums on the floor and made excuses the whole time for his behavior.

You’re right. The NFL is consistently misinterpreting their own rule in the exact same way roughly once a week for the last two years. You’re the only one who truly understands it.

His feet never moved. He never became a runner. How do you become a runner when there was no running whatsoever involved.

The two rule deal with different situations.

It’s more of a media narrative that won’t go away than something that’s actually a problem. Announcers saying “I don’t know what a catch is” every game when the rule is clear and obvious gets people riled up. They believe this thing because it’s been repeated so often whether it’s true or not.

Danny Ainge said he would have taken Tatum with the first overall pick if he’d kept it. I used to think he was trolling, but now I think he meant it. Which means that Ainge swindled the league yet again, because he got his guy and managed to pick up another first round pick in the process.

Jayson Tatum is legit, his shaky rookie moments are far outweighed by his holy shit moments. He’s the opposite of butt.

Like myself and Wildcat and other who understand the rule have said. The guy is falling with the ball, what happens when he hits the ground decide. Its not Steelers vs. Pats in this instance, it is Receiver vs. Ground and the ground won. Its one continuous movement by the receiver as he’s moving towards the ground.

It’s understandable that you would think that. The trick is that the process of a catch that takes a player to the ground is not considered complete until he’s gone through the ground. People look at this play and see the extra effort James gives while falling and think it should count as “a football play,” but his…

It does extend to WR/TE, if the WR/TE has already possessed the ball. The issue here had nothing to do with the goal line and everything to do with catching the ball in the first place. The call would have been the same if it had happened at the 50 yard line. People may not like the rule, but it has nothing to do with…

Giants fan who hates the Patriots here: you are correct. It was, by the NFL’s very-easy-to-understand rules not a catch. The author of this post does not understand their simple rule. It’s a rule that I dislike, but it’s crystal-clear: if you lose control of the ball as you go down, it is not a catch.

Just saw this on Reddit. Ball is touching the ground.

If you’re falling when you make the catch, you have to hold onto it. It’s really that simple.

When his left elbow hit the ground, he lost grip on the ball with his left hand (one might say DROPPED it) and the ball hit the ground. That’s a pretty clear non-catch according to the rules.

Just stop. The what-about-ism got old years ago. There’s not remotely any sort of equivalence between the far right and the far left when it comes to batshit insanity, because there’s not remotely any sort of equivalence to an entire part of the political spectrum who view expertise, knowledge, education, and…

nothing says “desperate for attention” than this comment

I probably would have found room for Wynonna Earp on the list, too. I’m sure there’s no hard feelings though.

The A.V. Club shuns the A.V. Club of Hawkins Middle School. We’re Upside Down, indeed.