Blandino on the no catch call

[KB_fan]

15 hours ago, Castavar said:

It was no doubt a bullsh*t call, but it all could have been avoided if Crotchery just made a clean catch. Not to mention his later drop on the 4. Dude crumbled big time for a "veteran" player.

I seem to recall now that during training camp folks who were wanting to see him gone kept bringing up a bad drop of his.  Was it in the playoffs against Seattle last year?  I'm not sure.  Those of us ok with keeping him kept saying, it was his ONLY drop the whole year....

I'm not familiar with Cotch's pre-Panther days.  I'm beginning to wonder if he's got a pattern of drops in key games?  Certainly he was a great pair of hands for us in the regular season.  "Clutchery" .. that's why his drops on Sunday were so damning and surprising.   (The whole game Sunday was just weird really.  At least on offense it was like "pretend Panthers" on the field.  So different from what we saw all season.... I'm beginning to understand SOME of the "whys" but still.. )

[KB_fan]

PS: Good Observer article with Cotchery's comments on the game.  I admit he's willing to own up to his mistakes and recognizes how they killed momentum. 

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article59083888.html

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“The hard part is when you’ve got opportunities to make a play you have to make it, whether it’s Jerricho or any of the other players out there,” Rivera said. “You get a chance to make a play you make it, and it helps keep the momentum going, convert first downs, stuff like that. Those things hurt.”

Cotchery wasn’t alone in making mistakes Sunday for the Panthers. But his were so uncharacteristic they stood out among others.

“When you have those self inflicted wounds, it just takes away all momentum,” Cotchery said. “That seemed to be the theme tonight.”

 

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/nfl/carolina-panthers/article59083888.html#storylink=cpy

[KB_fan]

Trying to find what I'm remembering of a bad Cotchery play last year in the post-season:

Seems there was a mix up between Cam & Cotch in the wild card against AZ which led to an interception

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/1/3/7487243/panthers-cardinals-2015-results-score-nfl-playoffs-cam-newton-ryan-lindley

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Despite the offensive ineptitude, the Cardinals actually carried a 14-13 lead into halftime. A litany of Panther mistakes kept Arizona in the game, including a muffed punt, a badly missed field goal, and miscommunication between Cam Newton and Jerricho Cotchery that led to a pick.

 

And here's a Pro Football Talk article about the playoff loss in Seattle:

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/10/seahawks-advance-to-nfc-title-game-with-31-17-win/

A commenter mentions "crtical drops" by Olsen, Cotchery & Tolbert.  Yuck... sounds familiar. 

I think it was the only drop credited to Cotchery all last season.  Just like this season he'd had 0 drops before Sunday.

I guess he is NOT "Mr. January" or "Mr February"

Sigh.   He was clutch so much in the regular season.  This really has to hurt....

[KSpan]

43 minutes ago, KB_fan said:

I seem to recall now that during training camp folks who were wanting to see him gone kept bringing up a bad drop of his.  Was it in the playoffs against Seattle last year?  I'm not sure.  Those of us ok with keeping him kept saying, it was his ONLY drop the whole year....

I'm not familiar with Cotch's pre-Panther days.  I'm beginning to wonder if he's got a pattern of drops in key games?  Certainly he was a great pair of hands for us in the regular season.  "Clutchery" .. that's why his drops on Sunday were so damning and surprising.   (The whole game Sunday was just weird really.  At least on offense it was like "pretend Panthers" on the field.  So different from what we saw all season.... I'm beginning to understand SOME of the "whys" but still.. )

You're thinking of the dropped TD in Cincy - Jones was right there, but a seemingly catchable ball. Would have been a game-winner.

[KB_fan]

12 minutes ago, KSpan said:

You're thinking of the dropped TD in Cincy - Jones was right there, but a seemingly catchable ball. Would have been a game-winner.

 

Ah yes, thanks.  That probably is what I'm thinking of.   I did quickly scan the Seattle Jan 2015 playoff film and Cotchery had a two incompletions that looked catchable..., in addition to a play where a Seattle defender got in front of him and nearly intercepted it.... but I didn't see a flagrant drop.

[Darth Biscuit]

In regards to the drops... I think the same thing that affected Cam affected pretty much everyone.  They all looked tight and nervous.  It's a big stage.

[juliosantos]

but the wr on the colts caught the ball when it hit the floor right? smh these refs are bias 

[QueensKing]

10 hours ago, BANE said:

No s**t jackass, that's not the f'ing point. The refs need to do their jobs correctly, which they failed to do miserably on the play in question. There has got to be harsher penalties for refs missing calls like this.

It may have not been your point, but it's mine.  Replace the word "refs" with "wr" in your sentence and maybe it's simple enough for you to understand... it's the same thing.  Different toilet, same s**t.  Am I the only one who noticed that Cotchery played horribly?  Or do you want to blame the refs for that too?  

[SCP]

Blandino is a buffoon 

[cgarsmoker]

When Mike Carey, a former respected official says it's a catch and 30 seconds later the actual game ref comes on TV and says it isn't a catch should tell everyone in the world that nobody really knows what constitutes a catch in the NFL anymore.  The NFL can now have it both ways and always be "right" in making whatever call they want to make in any given circumstances.   The inconsistencies is what make me sick.  If they called it a no catch in the Indianapolis and Pittsburgh game, I could live with it being a no catch for Cotchery but when they allow those catches to stand and overturn ours is simply ridiculous.  

Also, how the hell can Manning be so clearly touched on the Ealy sack and we are forced to burn our last challenge to get the call corrected?  It's funny, Denver didn't have to use any challenges at all because they had nothing in question on their side.  

Cam was getting blasted and taken to the ground after he threw the ball and it wasn't called all game but I'm sure old man manning wouldn't have been allowed to be driven into the ground like that.

Boston swats a ball out of Sanders hand and draws an unsportsmanlike penalty but Julius Peppers  swipes a ball out of Cam's hand and plays keep away and no call is made.  Turner shoves a guy at the whistles and gets a personal foul but we've seen those plays and much worse happen all year and it wasn't called.  The inconsistencies are eating away at me and it's going to be a long, long offseason.   

[Darth Biscuit]

100% agree with you @cgarsmoker that the glaring inconsistencies are the main issue.  Get it right, get it wrong, but do it the same for everyone... this catch rule thing is literally ruining the league mainly because I've seen the EXACT same play be called differently by the EXACT same officials with help from New York.

 

I will say however that Mike Carey is an idiot and I knew as soon as he said it would be overturned that we were doomed.

 

On the Manning down challenge, in a perfect world they'd get that call right, but I personally cut them a little slack on those bang-bang plays like that... their view may have been obscured, etc.  I saw a pretty blatant hold by Remmers on Miller that they didn't call also, so plays are plays... but as I've said a million and one times, the ones that burn my buttocks are the ones they review and STILL get wrong.  No excuse for that, period.