Very interesting. I wonder what Bill Belichick has to say about this now!notahomer wrote:Wow, saw an exec from the officiating department break down two calls (one call each AFC/NFC championships). According to him Welker's pick/rub was NOT pass interference and was a legal play....
On the other blown call, the officials missed the fact that Bowman had possession and ruled a fumble recovered by the Seahawks. So they blew the call, but it was, in fact, non-reviewable, so they didn't blow it a second time by not reviewing the play. Fortunately (in one sense), the blown call didn't cost the 49ers anything since the Seahawks fumbled again on the very next play, and the 49ers recovered the ball a little further from the goal line (somewhere around the 49ers' 6-yard line, wasn't it?) than they would have had the ball had the correct call been made on the Bowman recovery at the 1. So that blown call can't be seen as having any effect on the outcome of the game whatsoever. (The Bowman injury is another matter completely.)