Count Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones among those who thinks that the crucial catch by Dez Bryant should not have been overturned on appeal — never mind the Calvin Johnson rule.
“I do think he made it, yes, and we had the opportunity to look at several angles up there, where I was sitting, and the answer is I do,” Jones said. “But we’ve had a lot — certainly we had the call last week in our game with Detroit, we had the ruling on [the NFL reversing the suspension of Detroit’s Ndamukong] Suh before that, so we’ve had a lot of re-looks at things around here, sometimes they go for you and sometimes they don’t.”
Dean Blandino, the NFL’s head of officiating, noted on Twitter that a receiver must hold onto the ball “throughout entire process of contacting the ground. He didn’t, so it is incomplete.” That’s the so-called Calvin Johnson rule and Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers said afterward that he recognized it immediately. Naturally, he would want to.
“I’m not so much into talking about the judgment — it was judgment — the judgment of the officials,” Jones said.” It was just a bad time for us to have a play like that. To Green Bay’s credit, they were in a position to win the game and we had to make a play like that. In my opinion, we made the play.”
And, as for the rule, if Jones doesn’t like it, he can lobby his fellow owners and the competition committee to change it.
After spending most of her career in traditional print sports journalism, Cindy began blogging and tweeting, first as NFL/Redskins editor, and, since August 2010, at The Early Lead. She also is the social media editor for Sports.
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