I need ur guys expertise on "The Catch Gate"

[malachi2532]

First I'll say I know its kind of late to be asking but.......

Was it a catch by Golden Tate or a INT by MD Jennings?

Just wondering what you guys felt here in Vikings land considering it was the Packers.

My opinion is and has been since i first saw it on TV was TD ties go to the WR.

Just a couple of bullet points that are in my head after thinking about it and watching so call professionals talk about it:

1. Define a catch.(there is not one in the rule book it basically says see possession)
2. Is a play over on the ground or in the air?(this is obvious it's just the smart a** in me)

From what I've seen for a WR to make a catch he has to maintain possession throughout the play as well as stay in bounds.....from what i was watching Golden was in the play thew whole time fighting for the ball(ESPN even shadowed out the whole screen then highlighted Tate's hand "barley" on the ball)....At its high point both players contact the ball Jennings completely catches it and maintains possession all the way to the ground NO doubt about it.....where my argument comes in is if a WR has a hand on the ball throughout the play when can and should we determine when he has possession.....was it at the beginning when he 1st came in to contact with the ball, is it when he hits the ground or is it when the ref determines all prerequisites where met for a "catch" was made or if a possession has been made.....I TRULY don't no but who does...

Thanx Guyz SKOL!!!!!!!!!!!! WE'RE COMIN (in my KFAN voice) LOL

[CriminalMind]

When he hits ground/falls to the ground is when its an official catch
(for example you could catch a ball in midair and sail out of bounds, therefore no catch).

No matter how much it may "look" like an INT, if Tate has one hand on the ball throughout the act, he should be awarded possession (as ties go to the offense).

It is not defined 2 hand vs 1 hand. (WRs can physically catch balls with 1 hand)

Just my opinion, its a catch because it falls into an undefined area in the rules, and becomes a straight ref judgement.

In the offseason, they should identify a rule for this kind of play.
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[The Gnat]

It was an INT 70%.
It was a TD 30%.

That's how I'm split on it.

However, it wasn't nearly the worse call that week by replacement officials and since it was believed to be unreviewable for possession by former officials and the former head of officials, their not overturning it made sense. When slowed down I'm not sure Tate maintained control throughout the whole play. However, it is much more bang-bang than ESPN tried to make it and you can't conclusively say that with his left hand Tate didn't maintain control once he touched the ball, which was a fraction of a second after Jennings got his hands on the ball. It was a call that went against the Packers, it is iffy if Tate maintains control, but hardly conclusive video that he doesn't, and it is iffy if Tate gets control of the ball at the same time as Jennings, and this is more conclusive in a slow motion replay after watching it four times.

Overall, this is a call that the regular officials could have easily called the same way and the video evidence isn't as highly conclusive as people like to say it is to the point that you could guarantee reversal of the call on the field and guarantee that it was right. However, I do think that was an INT over a TD, just one within the context of indisputable visual evidence it is difficult for them to overturn the call.
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[Kellerman]

If it looks like an interception, it probably is one. At least, that's my take on it. I don't buy that a WR can have possesion with just one hand, when the other guy clutches the ball to his chest with 2.
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[milanb]

Why are people still dwelling on this?

I agree it was a bad call, but that's just my opinion. It was a judgement call, and a difficult one at that. There is no absolute correct or incorrect call on the play, and the game is full of calls and non-calls of this nature.

The bottom line is that Jennings made a selfish play going for the INT instead of just knocking the ball down. The result was that the game came down to a ref's decision, and the call didn't go the Packers' way.

It's time for everyone to stop dwelling on this one play and move on.
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[milanb]

Those of us who have been around for a while distinctly remember the Packers getting into the playoffs in 2003 because of a questionable judgement call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_QzwbZJyFg

I didn't hear anyone from Green Bay complaining about that one.
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[twslhs20]

Was an interception.

Do not feel bad for the Packers.

Next.
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[rpmwr19]

It was pass interference on the offense.
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[malachi2532]

Thanx again guys, not dwelling just didn't see you guys having a discussion on it or at least its not on the 1st page. I had to get a sports fan's opinion not a TV personality or casual fan's. And I only wanted the opinion of the people I read posts from.

We can all go back to current events now...LOL

[SteelKing728]

CatchGate? There is no gate. there never was, never will be. Just call it something original.

I'm up in the air. At this point, I'm just calling it a catch. I don't feel bad for the Packers at all. In fact, if this happened to the Vikings, no one would have cared probably.
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[Darth Brooks]

It was a play that should never have been run because of the Offensive pass interference a few plays earlier that was bizarrely called a DPI.

Other than that I would have called it an interception. Tate never had possession of the ball (at best he had possession of Jennings) Jennings had control first and never lost control of the ball.
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