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Originally Posted by bballguy
I beg to differ. I don't think Gronk had any chance to get between the ball and the dude who intercepted it.
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he was in the vicinity, it's hard to make any adjustments when a linebacker is holding you and leading you towards the back of the endzone. i've seen pass interference calls where the ball is much further away from the Receivers. Plus the not catchable calls are called on balls that are clearly no where near the receivers or going out of bounds. even te former referee and VP of Officiating Mike Pereira who does officiating analysis said it should have been a penalty.
plus i really thought the refs would at least make this call after the horrible 3rd down interference/holding call on the panthers last touchdown drive where the Panthers TE grabbed and wrapped his arms around the patriots receiver and flung his other arm in the air for the worst acting job ever, and the patriots corner (i think it was McCourty). you can watch the replay clearly on NFL.com - where they even said it was a terrible call, see where the panthers arms are and how the offense player is actually locking his arms around the corner.
i dont know. bad decision. terrible way to ruin an epic game that could have been talked about for all the right reasons instead it will be all about the bad call.