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I may come off as partial being a Furman grad, but I too thought it looked to be a forward pass. I saw a similar play on Monday night, and it was instantly blown as an incomplete.
I don't fault the referee on the no call (the play was away from hiom at an odd angle). It looked as though the LJ was out of postiton and that may have caused the problem.
At any rate, it was obviously very close, the only critism I'd have is that the call wasn't a conservative one (I
ve thought about it and I'd feel the same way if it went the other way). In the past three years of being an official, I've learned that if its too close to call, you call forward pass instead of lateral, incomplete pass instead of fumble, incomplete pass as opposed to complete and down by contact instead of fumble...I think you get the point. I've always believed that its better to error on the side of not giving a big play away. I think thats my issue with that particular play.
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