TitanHope
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Wrapping up doesn't knock the ball out in that situation. That was the right play to make, hit the guy hard in the square of the back and make him drop the ball. Thats what he did, and the refs called a foul and gave the receiver the catch anyway. Easily two blown calls.
It wasn't that one play. Jackson likes to go for the big hit, and not every player is the size of Brandon James.
As for this play, trying to knock the ball out is all fine and good. But this isn't a TD pass. It was a pass to midfield, and it wasn't vital for him to make that decision. Jackson made a mistake and launched himself at the receiver, and even if it isn't a penalty in college, he left it up to the officials to deem in unneccessary roughness/hitting a defenseless receiver. Don't put it in the ref's hands at a crucial moment. So not only did the dude keep the catch, but another 15 got tacked on.
He gambled on everything going wrong in the receiver making the catch and getting a penalty added to it against knocking the guy out of bounds and living to play another down. That's a 30-yard risk, and he lost.
If you think it was the absolute right play to make, then Jackson should've done so fundamentally, which does not include your feet leaving the ground. If he does that, there's probably no flag.
We had an abortion of a referee this game, but I think Jackson made a mistake here. I totally get why others would disagree too. You always want the ref to not affect the outcome of the game, and he did at this spot due to his subjective opinion of the hit.