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Sports 'journalists' (Who Don't Work For ESPN)

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Replay/rules explainer Dean Blandino had a bad day on Saturday. He said that a non-catch should remain that way for Buffalo in the second quarter at Penn St, but the replay official correctly reversed the call to a completion, since the receiver had both hands on the ball with his back on the ground before the DB knocked it loose.

There was another on-screen appearance by Blandino on Saturday, where he said one thing should happen, but both announcers, myself, and the replay official saw it the other way. Can't remember where that play occurred, but I couldn't believe he was seeing something different from the rest of us.

Those guys usually are wishy-washy about what the replay should decide; they spend most of their time explaining what to look for: like most viewers don't realize that a receiver needs to get a foot down in-bounds while controlling the football, that the runner is down if something besides his hands and feet hits the ground, or that the replay must be conclusive in order to change the original call. I want these guys to say whether or not they think the call should be changed, but Blandino will be more gun-shy after getting two pretty obvious calls wrong on Saturday.

Geez, that guy was the NFL's VP of Officiating from 2013 to 2017. No wonder nobody in the NFL knew what a catch was for that time period!
 
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