Chip gives us the what, that he waved his hand, misleads the reader by talking about where his hand was which is irrelevant, and then asking the question "does that constitute a fair catch" and then rather than saying yes because of the rule book stating any waving makes a ball dead, he says it's a matter of opinion.
Umm yeah, that's what's playing out on both teams msg boards.
Sure, but one side is wrong and one side is right. Chip says what happened, he waved his hand, and then neglects to mention that any waving is a fair catch. If columns are meant to mislead and leave the reader less informed then sure, it was a great column.
As a columnist I don't think his role is to decide which side is right or wrong, nor recite the rule book or confirm the officials got it correct.
re: the bolded --- why is that the difference between beat/columist?
I'm only saying that a fan of any team other than Iowa who saw the video would agree with the replay ruling! Chip made it sound like the ruling is open to some subjective interpretation and that's blatantly untrue!
Crawford kicked an uncatchable punt
No it isn’t.
Beat writers are essentially reporting whereas columnists are adding commentary/opinions in addition to the game story.re: the bolded --- why is that the difference between beat/columist?
to your last point I assume many of the stribs readership hadn't even seen the play
Actually when I got up this morning my TV was tuned to FS1, because I was watching the baseball game last night. The had The Carton Show, some talking head with 3 jocks, assume football players.
They were discussing it on the Dan Patrick show today and seemed to believe Iowa got hosed...
Yeah. But the people saying the opposite of that aren’t saying it was a fair catch. Is my point
Wow I missed someone taking a shot at Crawford. Had the play been legal the fault for the return would be 100% on the coverage guys who failed to make a tackle. Punter did his job just fine on that play.
They kick coverage all bunched up in one place. Someone should have been cutting off the line down the sideline.
Correct. The player who did stopped playing and lost leverage when he did.
For some reason Bryson (#16) jumped to his left where all the other defenders were.
Someone in the multiple threads on this topic suggested the ST coach blew it by not “telling “ Crawford to punt it out of bounds. I thought it was a good kick. Away from the return man, close to the sideline, and would have taken a few more valuable seconds off the clock. The reason the coverage failed is that the return man deceived with an invalid fair catch.
Yeah. He stopped playing. Not sure why
I respect your view. On to the next topic?
Holding calls are made while the play is underway. This should have immediately been dead as no play the instant he began to advance the ball illegally.
Because if the ball cannot be advanced he doesn’t want to be penalized 15 yards for blasting DeJean on a dead ball. That’s why the rule is there so the kicking team knows if it’s a live situation or dead ball.
Chip was playing LeJean’s game. Keep ‘‘em confused.
Bingo! Not sure I’ve seen the risk of penalty issue in all the cyber ink spilled on this interesting topic.