Jags taking Cowgirls into OT
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Jags are much improved under Pedersen. Good for him. Seems like a good guy. Urban was toxic there.
Unfortunately, that just probably means the Cowboys move on from McCarthy at the end of the year and Jerry loves Sean Payton. I really don’t want to see Payton in Dallas.
McCarthy deciding to throw deep on 3rd down was monumentally dumb. Let the Jags keep a TO and about 30 extra seconds. Run the ball there and game never gets to OT
McCarthy is out of his depth without a prime Aaron Rodgers. He’s toast. This was a critical loss. It takes most of the meaning out of the Christmas Eve Philly-Dallas game in Irving.
The Eagles now have a hefty 3-game cushion with three games left. It also means that even if they did catch Philly for the division, they may not get home field through the playoffs.
Let’s worry about that when needed. For now let’s just enjoy the Cowboys screwing up!!
Yeah, blown calls happen all the time but this was a bad miss by the officials.
In real time, I thought it was a block in the back which was not called.
I went back and watched the video, and stopped it frame by frame. The JAX player was #23 (if I recall correctly). It COULD NOT be clipping, as clipping in the NFL is only for "blocking an opponent from behind below the waist ...". (Bold added by me.) The block was not below the waist, so that takes away any clipping foul.
You could make a case that #23 committed a Block in the Back. However, watching it frame by frame, I don't think it was a foul. The initial block was in the side. The block was coming in on a diagonal on the offensive player (turned defender due to the INT). The initial part of the block was in the side. By the end of the block, due to the angles, you could claim that the block was in the back. However, part of the Block in the Back rules for the NFL state that it's not a block in the back if the "opponent turns away from the blocker when contact is imminent." I think with the angle that the contact was made, it as much appeared that the opponent turned as the block was delivered as it appeared it was a block in the back. And since the block started on the side of the opponent, I don't think it was a foul.
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