I may be wrong, but when Arian Foster got that last TD, and he stretched his arm over, I feel like everyone was fixated on his elbow not being down before the ball crossed the line. But from what I can see he was laying on the grass, both legs on the ground. Wouldn't that be down? I was thinking maybe everyone was just focusing on his elbow and were too stupid to realize he was laying down?
Yes his elbow hadn't touched the ground yet so the ball broke the plain before that happened. The fact that his ass was planted on the turf a yard earlier was missed by the refs though. Horrible, horrible call.
I was in a bar for the game, so couldnt really see much. But for one angle, it appeared that Foster was laying on his OL when he stretched to get across the plane... Dunno if he bounced on his OL, or what, but i thought he scored. Besides who didnt think they werent going to score if they gave Foster 2 more carries from the inch line? It gave us just enough time for things to play out as they did. Winning this way was much sweeter than just about any other way.
Yes it was down. However, it was an awful awful challenge in that spot. We are talking a matter of inches and irrefutable evidence to the contrary to overturn the decision on the field. The people in the booth should have told Rex to bag it.
Thank goodness they gave him the TD. Horrible Challenge. We win they take more time off the clock from the six inch line. We lose and lose a valuable time out.
From what I saw on the replay his ass hadn't planted on the ground yet because his fatass O-Lineman was under his ass. His knees hadn't hit yet either so I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter if the rest of his legs were touching the ground. Knees, ass weren't touching the turf, and when his elbow hit the ball was past the plane.
looked like he sat himself down right on the fatass lineman in the one replay I saw. It didn't look like any part of his body was on the grass besides the elbow.
It was challenged and we lost. It was a clear TD. Why bother creating a thread when it was chalenged in the first place?
No it wasn't. What if we stopped them on third down? How often do you see teams picking up 'just' six inches in one try at the goal line? It was a smart challenge and if we managed to keep them out of the endzone on the next down, Houston may have kicked an FG to shred the lead to 3. It was not a dumb call.
Definitely a TD. I watched it 10 times in slow motion. Ball broke the plane before elbow hit. Time to move on.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Why the elbow when his knee was already down? Shouldn't it be the spot of the knee? Or is the goal line different than a first down? Or was he lying on top of someone?
