Lance Easley: "I Didn't Do Anything Wrong"

[Max Green]

Just saw on the News that Easley now wants to be paid for all interviews.

[humanrefutation]

Just saw on the News that Easley now wants to be paid for all interviews.

http://deadspin.com/5947434/the-scab-who-blew-the-seattle-touchdown-call-now-wants-to-get-paid-for-interviews

[Ayt]

As somebody else put it, if Jennings isn't there the ball is flying out of the back of the endzone off of Tate's finger tips. You can see that on the sports science vid.

[Enrique]

After looking at all the pics and videos I could find, It does seem like Jennings almost certainly had control first. I think that if Tate did have possession when the ball hit the top of his fingers, then the ball certainly had to move, because when they got to the ground the ball was lower on his hand and forearm. I don't think I've seen anything that is proof of who touched it first, and I don't think it matters anyway. I definitely think that Tate came a lot closer to catching this ball than many people think though. I heard so many reasons why it wasn't complete in the days after the play that were just plain wrong. Jennings had two hands to Tate's one hand, Jennings was on top, Jennings was touching more of the ball, Jennings had it against his body. None of these matter apparently. Even Bob Mcginn in his podcast that I just listened to said that in his judgement that Tate had 20% and Jennings 80% of the catch and then asked if that was enough for a reception. Apparently none of that matters. The only thing that matters is who had control first and that was Jennings.

[Aaron It Out]

Why do you seem so determined to believe Tate had even the slightest control over the ball? 20% of a possession is not a possession. That ball ball was in Jennings' possession and it never really left his possession. You are looking way too deep into this. Like I said before, put away your rule book. You don't need the rule book to tell you that Tate did not catch that ball. Why are you making it so complicated?

[Enrique]

Why do you seem so determined to believe Tate had even the slightest control over the ball? 20% of a possession is not a possession. That ball ball was in Jennings' possession and it never really left his possession. You are looking way too deep into this. Like I said before, put away your rule book. You don't need the rule book to tell you that Tate did not catch that ball. Why are you making it so complicated?

You seem annoyed at my questions, and I can assure you I'm not trying to be annoying. I asked the questions because, as I said before, I'm not an expert on the football rulebook. Just like everybody else I was 100% positive that it was an interception. Then I saw what Sando posted on ESPN and it raised some questions in my mind, and it made me realize that the reasons I and even some of the commentators on TV were saying it wasn't a catch were not relevant. I was just trying to understand the rules behind why it wasn't a catch. You say to put away the rulebook, but how else does one determine the rules? Should I look inside my heart to see if it was a catch? Seems to me that the NFL rulebook would be a pretty good place to go to understand the finer points of the rules. After seeing the tuck rule game and the Calvin Johnson non catch play, I've learned to not always trust my intuition when it comes to NFL rules. I know there are people with far more knowledge than me of football rules on this board so I wanted to see the response to Sando's post and the CHFF article. The Sport Science video was actually very helpful, I hadn't seen that before, as were some other posts. I'm convinced it was an interception now as i said in my previous post.

[MilBucksBackOnTop06]

He doesn't know the rule since control can be established in a case like this prior to the feet hitting the ground. In the case of simultaneous possession, the issue is which player first established control regardless of when the feet or a body parts hits the ground. If a player establishes control while in the air prior to another player trying to establish control, the control by the first player (Jennings) continues throughout the play unless he loses control at some point. Jennings didn't ever lose control, therefore it is his ball. The only argument against this interpretation is that Tate somehow also had the same amount of control of the ball when Jennings controlled the ball, which is ludicrous since Jennings had both hands on the ball while pulling it into his chest while Tate merely had his left hand on the ball (at best, since it is hard to see his left hand at all).

What a **** joke. The guy is so incompetent he doesn't even know the correct rule after the fact. Having feet or a body part on the ground had nothing to do with the ruling.

Excellent post.

I agree 100%. What a nut. Jennings had complete control and the ref looked at the first guy who got the call right and called just the opposite. He should have agreed with the man who was in better position.

Actually they both were in horrible position but the other back line judge got their first and this clown was behind Tate the whole time.

Good job. Well...there is my very first post on the Green Bay Packers in this forum that I did not know existed until now.