We all know that the NFL office performs a post mortem on significant official's calls after the fact and quite often releases a statement about the results of this post mortem. This call remains what it was on the field when it happened. Its time to move on.
When I look at where the ball hit the ground and where Chub was at and where he was moving it's obvious the ball had to have hit his helmet. The trajectory of the ball was nearly straight up after hit hit his helmet. The players on the field in close proximity to the ball all reacted as would be expected when the ball hit Chub because they knew the ball hit Chub. Replay is there for a reason. This season I've seen two receptions ruled a catch on the field that were absolutely not receptions. Julio Jones had one against the Eagles and Quincey Enunwa had one against the Lions. I couldn't care less who wins games between the Eagles/Falcons and Jets/Lions! In both instances the replay officials let two very obvious incorrect calls on the field stand. The NFL overturned a whole lot of calls last season. My understanding is they want to let the call on the field stand more often this year unless it's very obvious. Not sure what the threshold of overturning a call is right now. My bigger issue with this is the NFL came out and said Garrett's roughing the passer call on Ben was wrong but didn't acknowledged any of the other calls they got wrong across the NFL.
Did the ball change rotation? Absolutely Was it clear from the camera angles that it definitely touched the helmet of the defendent? No The only way the Steelers have the call over turned and only way we would see it clearly tounched is from a sideline angle from the ground. The problem is the ding dongs in charge have turned the review process as if they are US Federal cases. The defendent needs to be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The throw was like a punt...nobody in sight...Ben will always hold on to the ball which will cause fumbles but there were plenty of plays he made by finding his 3rd or 4th option as well
And plenty of balls that just flat out missed his receivers. As bad as the turnovers were they weren't the only story with Ben's play. His accuracy was way off as well.
Have to respectfully disagree, Big Horsesh&t (tm-techheart) always stinks after a one game lay off even .... other QBs stink out of bye week too.
Game speed is such a big difference...his reads were slow therefore holding the ball and timing w WRs wasn’t very crisp
If reads are a skill that you can rate Ben is a 3 on a good day. So if you're argument is he was a 1 against the Browns I guess I can agree. But he's also a 3 in decision making and no amount of preseason snaps has ever or will ever fix that problem. Hence... The Big Dummy.
