Alright, Who Dat Nation.

I thought we were moving on to Baltimore.

Apparently not.

That Chase Young strip-sack, Jonas Sanker scoop-and-score is STILL all over my Facebook feed. Everybody has an opinion. Everybody has watched the replay 47 times. And apparently nobody is going to stop talking about it.

So fine.

Let’s talk about it.

First, let me tell you what Tony saw.

I saw Chase Young get to Jared Goff. I saw that football come out. I saw it travel BACKWARD. I saw Jonas Sanker pick it up and take it to the house.

And when I watched it live?

Touchdown Saints.

I didn’t need a law degree. I didn’t need a 300-page NFL rulebook. Ball went backward. Saints picked it up. Six points.

Except that’s not how the NFL rule works.

The replay officials determined Goff had already started his forward throwing motion before Chase Young’s hit affected the throw. Under the NFL rule, once that forward throwing motion begins, the play can be ruled an incomplete forward pass even though the contact causes the football itself to go backward. That’s why replay took the touchdown away.

Now here’s where Tony stands.

Do I like the rule? Hell no.

Because if you’re sitting on your couch watching a football leave a quarterback’s hand and fly backward, every football instinct you’ve developed over the last 40 years is screaming:

THAT BALL IS LIVE.

Apparently even Jared Goff wasn’t sure why it wasn’t a fumble, and Dan Campbell said he initially thought Detroit had lost the play. So Saints fans weren’t crazy for looking at that replay and wondering what the hell just happened.

But there’s a difference between saying “I hate that rule” and saying “the officials ignored the rule to screw the Saints.”

From everything I’ve read since the game, I can’t honestly say the second one.

The NFL applied its interpretation of the throwing-motion rule. I may think it’s ridiculous that a football can physically travel backward and still be treated as an incomplete forward pass, but that’s the rule they used.

And here’s the other thing.

Would that touchdown have changed the game?

Of course it would have.

Detroit was leading 7–0. Instead of the Saints tying it up, the touchdown disappeared. In a game New Orleans eventually lost 31–30 in overtime, seven points are pretty damn hard to ignore. The Saints’ own recap called that overturned touchdown a turning point in the first half.

But I’m still not going to sit here Monday morning and say:

“The refs cost us the game.”

We turned the ball over three times. We fell behind 21–0. We had opportunities. We fought all the way back. And after scoring in overtime, we had the football in our quarterback’s hands with one play to win it.

That’s football.

So Tony’s final ruling?

I hate the rule.

I understand why Saints fans are pissed.

I understand why the NFL overturned it.

And I damn sure understand why we’re still talking about it.

But Baltimore is next.

At some point we’ve got to stop trying to get those seven points back and go earn the next seven.

WHO DAT.

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