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Are you feeling a sense of déjà vu, NFL fans?
Saturday night's controversial Buffalo Bills interception was still the talk of the sports world headed into Sunday's two NFL divisional round games. Brandin Cooks looked to have caught a Josh Allen pass in overtime that would have put the Bills in field goal range against the Denver Broncos. However, the officials ruled that Cooks didn't maintain possession before Broncos cornerback Ja'Quan McMillian ripped the ball away for an interception.
The play isn't the reason why the Bills lost, however it was quite a bad look for NFL officials considering the reasoning is questionable to say the least. Especially with photographic evidence.
On Sunday, football fans surely got a sense of déjà vu in the fourth quarter of the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears game a mere 24 hours later. With the Rams driving and the score tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter, Davante Adams caught a Matthew Stafford pass that was seemingly pulled out by a Bears defender on the ground. Surely this play was called an interception like Saturday night, right?
Nope, as the Rams kept possession of the ball and ended up scoring a touchdown a few plays later.
But why was Adams' catch allowed to stand and not Cooks?
Honestly... it just seems like the officials got it wrong on Saturday. The argument on Saturday was Cooks didn't have possession when he hit the ground and it seems like on Sunday, Adams had possession by the time he hit the ground. And yet, that's not really a comforting explanation when the side-by-side pictures look eerily familiar.
Though, all of this might have been moot anyway as the Bears were seemingly offside on the play regardless.
Still, this definitely doesn't feel great if you're a Bills fan still smarting from Saturday's blown call.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Why that Davante Adams catch wasn't called a Bears interception
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Saturday night's controversial Buffalo Bills interception was still the talk of the sports world headed into Sunday's two NFL divisional round games. Brandin Cooks looked to have caught a Josh Allen pass in overtime that would have put the Bills in field goal range against the Denver Broncos. However, the officials ruled that Cooks didn't maintain possession before Broncos cornerback Ja'Quan McMillian ripped the ball away for an interception.
The play isn't the reason why the Bills lost, however it was quite a bad look for NFL officials considering the reasoning is questionable to say the least. Especially with photographic evidence.
On Sunday, football fans surely got a sense of déjà vu in the fourth quarter of the Los Angeles Rams and Chicago Bears game a mere 24 hours later. With the Rams driving and the score tied 10-10 in the fourth quarter, Davante Adams caught a Matthew Stafford pass that was seemingly pulled out by a Bears defender on the ground. Surely this play was called an interception like Saturday night, right?
Nope, as the Rams kept possession of the ball and ended up scoring a touchdown a few plays later.
But why was Adams' catch allowed to stand and not Cooks?
Honestly... it just seems like the officials got it wrong on Saturday. The argument on Saturday was Cooks didn't have possession when he hit the ground and it seems like on Sunday, Adams had possession by the time he hit the ground. And yet, that's not really a comforting explanation when the side-by-side pictures look eerily familiar.
Though, all of this might have been moot anyway as the Bears were seemingly offside on the play regardless.
Still, this definitely doesn't feel great if you're a Bills fan still smarting from Saturday's blown call.
This article originally appeared on For The Win: Why that Davante Adams catch wasn't called a Bears interception
Continue reading...
