There was a brief Jersey grab before the arm around the body which drove the call. It was enough of a grab of the jersey though in the replays they fixated on the arm around the waist. Better to be a no call but it’s the rule as much as a third step was required for something to be a “football play” on the catch and fumble. Don’t forget the chiefs hitting the left crossbar on a FG in the first half.njbill wrote: ↑Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:22 am I agree the Sanders play would’ve been a catch in the old days. But it’s not a catch under today’s rules.
What everybody seems to be overlooking is that the defensive holding occurred at about the line of scrimmage or maybe one yard off it. The defender is allowed to restrict the receiver at that point by putting his arm around him. Completely legal. It was a horrendous call.
So let’s say the call wasn’t made. The Chiefs have fourth and eight with 1:48 left. Chip shot field goal. Give them that. The Eagles get the ball back with, say, 1:40 and one time out. What would’ve happened? That’s unknowable, but I would like to have seen the game played out to its natural conclusion.
Having said all that, what is most distressing to me is that the Eagles were the better team and should have been able to beat the Chiefs. But they were not the better team today. The team that played better today won the game. The Chiefs coaches really outcoached the Eagles coaches. We here in Philadelphia have a long history of experience with Andy Reid’s bad coaching decisions. Well, he sure didn’t make many today.
The Eagles defensive line was supposed to be able to get pressure on Mahomes. They didn’t. They couldn’t stop the run.
On special teams, the newly reactivated kicker kicks a line drive punt that the special teams allow the returner to get back to the 5 yard line.
Quez Watkins drops a pass that would’ve been a touchdown or close to it.
In a close game in any sport, the losing team can almost always point to any number of things that had they gone the other way, they might’ve won the game.
The Eagles had a 10 point lead at halftime. On the Eagles post game show, one of the guys said teams with leads of 10 points or more in the Super Bowl are 26–1. The exception, until tonight, was the Pats come back against the Falcons.
I’m sick about the loss because all of the stars supposedly were aligned in our favor. But it didn’t happen. Such is life. We certainly had a lot of chances even putting aside the holding call at the end of the game.
Good game. I think I like the Pats - Eagles and the Steelers-Cards from a few years back and the latter being end of 2000s or early last decade better. Hitting was intense though which is my speed. They kept the ball away from KC a lot in the first half which was smart, Mahomes is ridiculous. Even when Tampa beat them a few years back the dude was making passes while flying sideways the way a hero shoots bad guys in an action movie. If he stays healthy he should be the generational QB successor to Brady/Manning/Rodgers. Maybe Kingsbury will get forded in Arizona as folks realize he is a complete doughnut who held Mahomes back rather than developed him at Texas Tech.