Why was that not deemed a successful onside recovery by Funchess?

[CatTower]

ARTICLE 7. PLAYER POSSESSION

Item 1. Player in Possession. A player is in possession when he is inbounds and has a firm grip and control of the ball with his hands or arms.

 

Elbow down: Check

Both hands on ball: Check

No part of body touching out of bounds: Check

Right after this he hits out of bounds.  That's when the play ends, the toss doesn't matter.  It is a possession recovery by Devin Funchess.

 

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He had the ball in his hands before falling out of bounds.  He was clearly in possession since he was able to toss it to Jacobs.  And, the fact that it was even close should side with the call on the field.  NFL is so scripted.

[NYpanther95]

Wasn’t even thinking that. The whole time I was looking if he threw it to Ben in time. Now that I’m thinking about it makes no sense. Should’ve been recovered by funchess. 

[pantherphan96]

didn't have it long enough to be considered possession and the fact that he flipped it doesn't help.

[luke262]

He didn't have possession of the ball, he pushed the ball back in (or tried to) but I would imagine that it doesn't count as possessing the ball itself

[OneBadCat]

Typical ignorant refs Saints fairytale bullsht bias story mode calls by the NFL. That’s why.

[TheTruth1887]

Just now, OneBadCat said:

Typical ignorant refs Saints fairytale bullsht bias story mode calls by the NFL. That’s why.

Starting early with the excuses lol 

[cam1uvrxoxo]

Just now, TheTruth1887 said:

Starting early with the excuses lol 

Yeah you can go kill yourself since your coach is headhunting POS and your QB is a cuckolded manlet.  

[CatTower]

2 minutes ago, luke262 said:

He didn't have possession of the ball, he pushed the ball back in (or tried to) but I would imagine that it doesn't count as possessing the ball itself

No, he didn't.  He had both his hands on the ball securely and then flipped it up to Jacobs.  He clearly had possession before hitting the out of bounds line.  

[NeedSumD]

Just now, TheTruth1887 said:

Starting early with the excuses lol 

Good game half our fans on here will be on your page next week going i was a fan the whole time.  Fire eveybody Dilly Dilly

[Saca312]

2 minutes ago, TheTruth1887 said:

Starting early with the excuses lol 

hey. what excuses do you have for jumping the panthers and crawling back over to the saints lmao.

reminder when the saints were 0-2 this kid had himself a panthers logo and was a sudden panthers fan.

 

[OneBadCat]

Just now, TheTruth1887 said:

Starting early with the excuses lol 

Nah. He was out of bounds. That felt good to say though. Y’all still a candyass team lol

[Popsickle]

10 minutes ago, CatTower said:

He had the ball in his hands before falling out of bounds.  He was clearly in possession since he was able to toss it to Jacobs.  And, the fact that it was even close should side with the call on the field.  NFL is so scripted.

You're an idiot, learn the rules. He never establishes possession in bonds, furthermore, the toss to Jacobs was after he landed out of bounds. 

fug you're a retarded fug. 

[luke262]

1 minute ago, CatTower said:

No, he didn't.  He had both his hands on the ball securely and then flipped it up to Jacobs.  He clearly had possession before hitting the out of bounds line.  

I'll watch it again, if that is the case that is serious bs

[Burnout189]

Just now, TheTruth1887 said:

Starting early with the excuses lol 

What kind of waste of oxygen has nothing better to do than come on an opponents board and gloat after a win? Pretty pathetic guy.