Dropping the Ball at the 1/2 Yardline
 

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I watch a lot of college football, and a lot of pro football.

And for the life of me, I can't tell you how many times I have seen Division-I college football players and NFL football players drop the ball before crossing the goal-line.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I have seen this happen at least 10 or 11 times in the last 5 years ...... and those only include the games that l I l watch ...... I'm sure that it probably has happened several dozen times in the last 5 years throughout college and pro football.


I really don't understand it, and I'm not just saying that because a player on my favorite team just did it today ...... every time I see it happen, I just cannot believe that players that have been eating, breathing, and sleeping football for the better part of their lives keep on doing this over and over again.



Taylor wasn't the first player to do this on a big stage, and he won't be the last ...... for those of us who will continue to watch a good deal of both college and professional football, it will happen again, and again, and again ...... because for some reason, a lot of players will never learn.

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And a good team, a team with a real foundation, an real identity, a real system of leadership and a team that has a goal of winning, would not tolerate said players hurting their team.

We are going to be sitting at home again this year, and it is very easy to draw a straight line for that back to Jonathan Taylor. Fuck that dude!

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In 1992, Leon Lett allowed the ball to be knocked out of his hands just before he crossed the goal-line in the Super Bowl against the Bills.

In 1993, Leon Lett cost the Cowboys a game on Thanksgiving Day with a boneheaded play in the final seconds of the 4th quarter by touching the ball after the Cowboys had blocked a field goal attempt, which gave possession of the ball back to the Dolphins. The Dolphins then proceeded to kick the game-winning field goal as time expired.

The Cowboys won the Super Bowl in 1992, 1993, and again in 1995. Leon Lett was a starter on the Cowboys' for 9 seasons, from 1991 through 1999. Jimmy Johnson was a great coach, and the Cowboys were a great team from 1991 through 1996 ...... so what you are asserting is not necessarily true.

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You're right. JT isn't the first and won't be the last player to drop the ball celebrating before he crosses the goal line (apparently a Bungles defensive player did the same thing against the Tits today). But JT probably is the highest paid player to have done so.

It just boggles my mind that these dumbfucks prioritize trying to look cool on social media over doing their fucking job that pays them millions of dollars.

I just cannot image that somewhere along the lines in pee wee football, middle school, high school, college or the pros that it was not drilled into them again and again, "TWO FEET INBOUNDS."

Okay, yeah, I know college is one foot inbound but you get the concept. ONE - TWO. Two steps is a catch. Two steps is a possession. Two steps in the endzone is a touchdown.

It absolutly boggles the mind that pros don't carry the football across the goal line, put two steps in the end zone and THEN do their stupid celebration by doing whatever with the football. After they scored.....

I just had to laugh. I am so over being mad about the Colts because I would just be mad all the time. We are never sniffing success again with current leadership or AR as the QB.

It is similar to a mic drop, it is arrogant and is intended to show up the opponent.

I may be the only one but I never saw definitive proof that he actually dropped the ball before he crossed the goal line.

Every shot I’ve seen shows the ball still touching his hand when he was across the goal line, even though he was in the process of dropping it. If that’s the only footage, that’s not definitive proof that he didn’t actually cross the goal line while still possessing the ball.

Remember, it was called a touchdown on the field. They needed to have ABSOLUTE proof in order to overturn that.

Maybe there was and I just missed it.

Of course, none of this excuses Taylor’s dumb ass.

Jonathan Taylor has always been a dickhead, and I have said as much. His "Six less points" comments after the game just adds more to it.

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I thought so, too.

The rule is that the split-second the the ball touches the front end of the thick, solid white line, then it's a touchdown ....... it's like a zap of electricity the nanosecond that any part of the ball even touches that imaginary plane that goes straight up from the ground to the sky.


I don't think that any angles showed definitively whether or not he did or did not cross that imaginary plane ...... but just the fact that Taylor made it at all questionable and reviewable is the reason why it will now go down as the worst day of his professional football career.

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No excuse what JT did. The refs may have fucked up, but I don't care.

He wanted to look cool and ended up looking like an ass. Inexcusable to the highest extent. The bottom line is that ended the Colts playoff hopes because I truly believe that screw up deflated the whole team. Play calls had to be different after that. It had the opposite affect for the Broncos, Those lucky bastards.