Was a fair catch called?

[Zod]

OK, so from now on Brayton and Pepp are gunners on the same side. Their job is to grab the defender and toss his ass violently into the punt returner. Love it.

[GRWatcher]

Only if that guy pushes back.

[natty]

If they can make it down the field fast enough to force a fair catch.....

[MurkN]

If I'm not mistaken we have done this type of thing before. I can't exactly remember the game or whether it was this season or in the preseason, but I think Munnerlyn done it to some extent and we got away with it, so I wasn't really surprised about todays call.

[monstercat]

Why are you so worried about this anyway, Zod? It was the right call, and that's all that matters.

[Davidson Deac II]

Thats only a digest of the rules, and not the full rulebook. And it doesn't mention what the ref described about two players going at each other. Both players were blocking and the receiving team blocker got pushed back into the receiver. Had the receiving team player been standing still and gotten pushed into the receive, it likely would have been a penalty.

[Zod]

Why are you so worried about this anyway, Zod? It was the right call, and that's all that matters.

Karma

That shit is going to come back and bite us

[Gman was right]

Here is what referee Walt Coleman said of the play: “What happened was the two guys were blocking each other. The Washington guy got blocked into his own man so there was no interference. All we had to do was figure out who touched it first. If the Washington player is stationary and standing there and not trying to block, then he can’t do that. If they are both trying to block then he can knock him into him. Because they were both engaged then that’s why there wasn’t a foul or anything wrong with the play. If the Washington player is stationary and just standing there and the Carolina player had come down there and had knocked him, then it would have been totally different.”

[Zod]

you are awesome at pasting things already in this thread.

Congrats

[Gman was right]

Thanks! I just dont understand what part of that you didnt understand.

[monstercat]

Karma

That sh*t is going to come back and bite us

It seems to me that we've already had a year's worth of Karma bite us in the ass in the first three games. It was time for us to catch a break for a change.

[Davidson Deac II]

but if a fair catch is called there should be no blocking at all as the ball could not be advanced.

There shouldn't be, but there was. And the skins player was doing the blocking. As the announcer said, the blocker should have gotten out of the way.

And we have had plenty of bad karma, so this is make up karma.

[dimbee]

If a player is engaged in a block with another player and that leads to the opposing player running into his teammate, then it is what it is.

[theyhateme45]

OK, so from now on Brayton and Pepp are gunners on the same side. Their job is to grab the defender and toss his ass violently into the punt returner. Love it.

Why are you trying to make it wrong? It was clearly posted that it's only legal if both guys are engaging each other..... In your statement it would only be Peppers and Brayton doing the engaging, which is illegal!