Olsen's fumble - review

[Blackmagic]

All turnovers should be reviewed. But why wasn't Greg's fumble not reviewed? It wasn't clear cut.

I don't think that he caught it and made a football move. Looks that he starts to lose it as he moves.

You can't challenge turnovers, but the refs should've double checked.

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[Panthro]

Yeah it was a coin flip really. I have seen a call like that go either way. 

[Bartin]

He tucked it and planted to begin moving up field. That establishes him as a runner. It was the correct call. I agree that it's a little surprising it wasn't reviewed, but it wouldn't have changed the call on the field.

[KSpan]

The booth reviews and then signals the refs if they think review was necessary; apparently, the booth agreed with the call. It was definitely a catch and fumble in my opinion, but who knows how things may have turned out given the crazy interpretations of the catch rules this year.

[Servant of Cthululelei]

Yeah ultimately I think that was a fumble, though a really weird one.  I wonder if Greg was wearing some defective gloves or some poo, cuz he almost lost the ball when he "tucked" it on his game saving 4th down conversion catch too.  But hell, we persevered through all the bullshit, both the self-inflicted variety and the not.

[Peppers90 NC]

yea once that left foot planted and he turned with possession allowed it to be a fumble

[TheRed]

Yeah that was the correct call unfortunately.

Really the refs were pretty even for the most part yesterday. We got away with a few. So did the Saints though.

That Stewart fumble pissed me off, but looking at all the angles, there just wasn't enough to change that call.

[The Gus Bus]

This is a textbook fumble.

[KendrickPanther]

That is the third time I've seen Greg fumble in that sort of sideline turn up field situation. In his career.

[CRA]

It was a catch and fumble

however the NFL has shown they don't believe catches are always catches.  That play likely isn't a catch to some crews....is to others. 

I prefer they call catches catches. 

[Jase]

If you have to slow it down to 10% of the original speed to make it look like a fumble, IMO it shouldn't be a fumble. Calvin Johnson can catch a ball, go to the ground, take a nap, eat a snack, then get up and lose the ball, and it's incomplete. But that's a catch? Sorry, doesn't pass the sniff test.

[Darth Biscuit]

SB Nation mentioned it...

 

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/12/6/9858644/greg-olsen-fumble-nfl-officials-catch-no-catch-rule

 

 

Virtually every other play like this in 2015 has been ruled an incompletion.  I personally think it was a catch and fumble but the NFL is totally inconsistent in their rulings on these.

I think we should have challenged it.

[countryboi]

4 minutes ago, Darth Biscuit said:

SB Nation mentioned it...

 

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/12/6/9858644/greg-olsen-fumble-nfl-officials-catch-no-catch-rule

 

 

Virtually every other play like this in 2015 has been ruled an incompletion.  I personally think it was a catch and fumble but the NFL is totally inconsistent in their rulings on these.

I think we should have challenged it.

I have seen this play all over the NFL being call an incompletion but yesterday its a fumble...it was a bang-bang play but I think it was wrong

[Zaximus]

37 minutes ago, Darth Biscuit said:

SB Nation mentioned it...

 

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/12/6/9858644/greg-olsen-fumble-nfl-officials-catch-no-catch-rule

 

 

Virtually every other play like this in 2015 has been ruled an incompletion.  I personally think it was a catch and fumble but the NFL is totally inconsistent in their rulings on these.

I think we should have challenged it.

Right, all year the NFL has called that an incompletion.