Wonder how much coaches are going to challenge plays like this in the future. This is the second time this season a review resulting in a good result becoming a bad one. The other was a booth review of a scoring play and the same result.
Originally Posted by: PackFanWithTwins
They need to apply intelligence and conduct a proper risk-reward analysis.
What do you have to GAIN from challenging that? A chance to change it from 1st and goal at the 2, to a TD. Guaranteed points and there's no guarantee you'll get it in the endzone from the 2, but high likelihood.
What do you have to LOSE from challenging that? Losing the challenge + TO, having the ball moved back further if he actually went out earlier, or even having
Now, having the call be overturned and having it go AGAINST you is pretty rare, but whoever's watching the replays and letting Fox know whether to challenge or not HAD to have seen the ball move and if they didn't, I have no clue what they were looking at. I don't blame them for maybe thinking his foot went down OOB before the ball started coming out (which is what I initially thought), but it's clear the ball was coming out before it hit the pylon - which means, you have nothing to gain by challenging and everything to lose.