Worst call ever

[ConantheVolbarian]

How was that not a safety? It was so obvious that Stevie Wonder could've seen it. Then they reviewed it and upheld the call. Unreal.

 

[Johnnyreb#VFL]

I thought you were talking about the timeout by Pruitt

 

[TAF]

I thought you were talking about starting Richmond on the O Line

 

[VOLinAL]

That was clearly not a safety.

 

[AaronUT]

How was that not a safety? It was so obvious that Stevie Wonder could've seen it. Then they reviewed it and upheld the call. Unreal.

At the point of contact, the ball was out of the endzone. Good call.

 

[KBVol]

How was that not a safety? It was so obvious that Stevie Wonder could've seen it. Then they reviewed it and upheld the call. Unreal.

For some reason, and this has been true for decades st both the collegiate and nfl levels, refs simply will not, and go completely out of their way to never, ever call a safety. I don’t get it. Just change the rule if you’re not gonna call it when it’s obvious.

 

[ConantheVolbarian]

At the point of contact, the ball was out of the endzone. Good call.

I didnt know you could get forward progress when you were going backward the whole play.

 

[KBVol]

Hahahahaha!!! This OL is so god awful. #fireWillFriend

 

[KBVol]

I didnt know you could get forward progress when you were going backward the whole play.

Correct. Kyle made contact with the qb at the foot line or less while the qb was retreating. There was zero “forward progress”. It was a safety.

 

[JohnD13]

For some reason, and this has been true for decades st both the collegiate and nfl levels, refs simply will not, and go completely out of their way to never, ever call a safety. I don’t get it. Just change the rule if you’re not gonna call it when it’s obvious.

Know the rule...

 

[C-south]

I thought you were talking about the timeout by Pruitt

A week too late

 

[vollygirl]

What upsets me most is a call like that denies the player of the effort they put in to the play. That pisses me off.

 

[Remy]

Regarding worst call ever, Mr. Gaffney from Florida says, "Hi!"

 

[goldenvol]

I thought you were talking about starting Richmond on the O Line

I wish I could like this 300 times. I laughed out loud, while a tear rolled down my cheek

 

[NEVolFan]

I thought you were talking about Banks not blocking on the flea flicker.

 

[BearCat204]

Correct. Kyle made contact with the qb at the foot line or less while the qb was retreating. There was zero “forward progress”. It was a safety.

Then it was spotted correctly, it wasn’t a safety. The point where Phillips makes contact is where the ball should be spotted in that situation.

 

[VFL-82-JP]

I'm not sure of this, but here's how I think it goes in a case like this:

(a) The ball is dead (and spotted) as soon as the refs whistle the play over.
(b) The refs try to be very fast to whistle the play over when a QB is being sacked. Like, as soon as a sack is obviously happening.
(c) When our lads made contact with Charlotte's QB, his center of mass (and the football) were outside the end zone, at the 1-yard line.
(d) I don't know when the refs actually blew their whistles. But by placing the ball at the 1-yard line, they effectively said they whistled as soon as (c) happened.
(e) One of the elements of the game that is NOT reviewable (afaik) is when the play was whistled over. So the guy in the review booth had no choice but to let the call on the field stand.

I'm not saying it was a safety or not. I didn't hear the whistle, so don't know whether the QB was still in the field of play when it sounded. All I know for sure is, it's not about where he went to the ground. It's about where the ball was when the play ended. And with sacks, that usually happens before the QB hits the ground.

So if you watched the play, and saw him tackled in the end zone, and assumed the play was still live at that point, the whistle may be the part you missed (along with me).

 

[maxorange]

100% without a doubt NOT a safety.

 

[Rockytopvol86]

Close tie for 1st

I thought you were talking about starting Richmond on the O Line

 

[vollygirl]

Then it was spotted correctly, it wasn’t a safety. The point where Phillips makes contact is where the ball should be spotted in that situation.

Why?

 

[johnsonbrewer]

I thought you were talking about Banks not blocking on the flea flicker.

I thought he was going to cramp up running around the defensive player...

 

[GAVol]

100% without a doubt NOT a safety.

Agreed. All the runner has to do is have any part of the football across the goal line.

 

[Alto1]

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[NEVolFan]

I thought he was going to cramp up running around the defensive player...

His brain was telling him screen pass coming... to ME!

 

[vollygirl]

Agreed. All the runner has to do is have any part of the football across the goal line.

If you back into the endzone and get tackled it's not a safety?