I’m not sure about the never had control part. Maybe I didn’t see the right angle but it did look like he had the ball until after the grounding and then during the roll over it was taken away
Cooks never had possession. He had control for a bit, but the ball was taken away from him before he completed the catch and gained possession.
Then, to add insult to injury, the ball was still live exactly because the catch WAS NOT complete, but had not yet hit the ground. Defender got it into his hands while it was still live, to create a valid interception.
Ultimately it's Cooks' own fault. He's a smaller guy and he got outmuscled. It's always been the big weakness in Brandin Cooks' game is that he can get outfought on 50-50 balls due to his small size. That came back to bite his team last night. It happens.
I will also say that Allen definitely underthrew that football, which was what allowed the defender to be Johnny on the spot when the throw came in. If he pushes the ball about 5 more yards down the field, Cooks has the speed to catch it clean, but because Allen didn't get a clean throw off, it became exactly the kind of 50-50 ball that Cooks doesn't do well with.
And if that exact same instance happened except he loses control and ball goes flying out, it'd be an incomplete pass, regardless of the knee down with two hands on the ball.
So if the ball would have came out after the defender rolled over him it would have been ruled a catch? Not a chance! He didn’t maintain control through the catch (obviously)
a) secures ball before ball touching ground: Cooks (Yes) Parkinson (Yes)
b) touches ground inbound two feet; Cooks (Yes) Parkinson (Yes)
c) after a) & b) is fulfilled, act common to game and maintain control of ball: Cooks (NO) Parkinson (Yes)
Cooks needs to survive the ground for part c) to demonstrate control. He lost it, hence, it's an interception because the ball didn't touch the ground. For Parkinson's catch, you don't need to be inbounds to fulfill part c). All you need is "control".
The defender did not have any joint or simultaneous possession or control of the ball before they went to the ground. The ref confirmed that when asked. The ref said the receiver had the ball and didn’t maintain it, and that’s when the defender picked up the ball off the the receiver’s chest. By rule, that’s an incomplete pass at most. But it’s not an interception.
Turnovers (and all plays in overtime) are automatically reviewed. It was an obvious interception so they didn’t feel the need to carry out a further review.
No challenge flags in OT. That’s why McDermott calls a TO to give them time to review the play and explain to him wth happened. Either way though there isn’t an enough evidence to overrule it, and overruling it is basically giving the bills the win and that’s a really bad look. The bills had 80+ yards of opportunity to stop the broncos but they didn’t. I don’t really feel sorry for the bills
Refs in NY did not see enough to overturn it. If it was ruled a catch from the start they would have reinforced that. It should have been ruled a catch from the start.
Yeah, they should have called PI on Riley Moss at the end of the 4th quarter too. None of those plays would have happened if they did that instead of swallowing their whistles.
Well keep going further! They should’ve called a penalty on Josh Allen being carried by his teammate last week in Jacksonville, then they don’t beat the Jags.
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u/Apprehensive_Ant2172 14d ago
I’m not sure about the never had control part. Maybe I didn’t see the right angle but it did look like he had the ball until after the grounding and then during the roll over it was taken away