Yeah, I've got no catch there too. It's interesting how people see different things, but after seeing that I feel strongly enough that if it had been called a catch on the field, I wouldn't have thought it crazy if they overturned it. Again, though, I'm sure I'm in the minority.I hate the broncos as much as anyone. I don't know how anyone can watch that Cotchery play and come away upset that it was incomplete. Football outsiders has a pretty good GIF of a good camera angle here:
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/clutch-encounters/2016/clutch-encounters-super-bowl-50
If the ball touches the ground during a catch, it has to be securely held, and can't move. Not only does it move, but Cotchery's whole hand comes off it. Its so clearly not a catch.
What I continue to feel (agains from posting this in another thread clearly in the minority) is that NFL replays should be reviewed by the guy who had the call on the field, not the white hat (unless it was his call). I am very much opposed to anyone not a trained ref reviewing calls and think the ceding of responsibility to Blandino or New York is a significant mistake. Not because I'm a conspiracy theorist so much, but because if you've ever spent any time around refs or in the ref community, you come to truly believe that they simply do not give a shit about the outcome. The gauntlet to get from toiling in rec leagues to the NFL is tight, and while talent and temperament are a large part of it, every one of these guys has been inculcated for 20 years in the culture of not giving a shit who wins. They may fuck up like crazy on their calls, but by and large you can usually feel pretty good that they just don't care, or at least that they are very steeped in a ref culture that teaches that as a value to be put above all others. Guys in the league office don't have that same history, or even if they had it, they don't any more. Even without conspiracy theories, there are all sort of subtle and maybe even subliminal reasons to favor one team over another from grudges to economic. It works in the NHL, I guess, because so many of those calls are binary objective decisions -- across the line or not. Not so in the NFL. So, it has to be a guy on the field, for me. Which guy? The Cocherty thing convinces me even more that I want the guy who thought he saw it to be the guy who looks at it on video, because he is uniquely positioned to quickly concede "hmm, that's not what I thought I saw in real time." Another ref will never do that. He will defer. New York will never do that. No ref at that level wants to kick a call. Give him the information he needs to complete his call.