Were The Bengals Hosed On Michael Spurlock Reception That Led To Game-Winning Field Goal
by Josh Kirkendall on Oct 11, 2010 2:38 PM EDT
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PrintWith 25 seconds left in the game, Carson Palmer attempted a deep box-in pass to Chad Ochocinco that would have given the Bengals an attempt at a long field goal, roughly over 50 yards, below Mike Nugent's career best of 54 yards. And the way Nugent was going, a completed pass, perhaps another play or two with a timeout still in Marvin Lewis' pocket, the Bengals, even though the game was tied, truly controlled their own destiny.
Instead, Chad Ochocinco couldn't haul in a pass that he's easily caught in the past, eventually deflecting into the hands of safety Sabby Piscitelli, who returned the football 31 yards to the Bengals 34-yard line.
With 14 seconds left in the game, Josh Freeman took the shotgun snap and heaved a pass down the right sidelines to Michael Spurlock. With both feet down, Spurlock caught the pass while falling out of bounds. As he contacted the ground, the football was coming out.
It's not entirely unlike Calvin Johnson's touchdown reception that was reversed into an incomplete pass.
Without the reception, Tampa Bay's Conner Barth would have been forced to convert a 51-yard attempt, a distance not entirely unachievable considering Barth's longest field goal is a 54-yarder. Yet, a 51-yard field goal attempt is slightly harder than the eventual game winning field goal from 30 yards out.
The booth reviewed Spurlock's reception and upheld the call. Don Banks writes that the Bengals were hosed. Peter King questioned it, writing "It looked like the ball moved in his hands as he fell earthward, and the Bengals called time to allow for the virtual certainty of a booth review."
Pro Football Talk writes that the call cost the Bengals a win.
Replays showed that Spurlock, who was falling as he made the catch, failed to maintain possession of the ball once he struck the ground. So after further review, the call on the field of a completed pass would be overturned, right?
Um, wrong.
The call inexplicably stood, and on the next play the Bucs kicked the game-winning field goal.
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Why are we even dwelling on this?
We lost because the Bucs were better than us, not because we got hosed on some play for crying out loud. How about posting some constructive criticizm regarding our stagnant offense and our suprisingly mediocre defense.
Because my goal is to frustrate you
Then again, I say you create a website and do it yourself if you don’t like how we do it here.
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by Josh Kirkendall on Oct 11, 2010 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
If we're going with contstructive criticism...
That word has no “z” in it.
"Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do His thing. " -Tupac Shakur
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by sexsalad on Oct 11, 2010 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
LOL
That’s kind of embarrassing.
"Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the Lord do His thing. " -Tupac Shakur
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it looks like work." -Thomas Edison
+1
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by TennBengalfan on Oct 11, 2010 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions
You might want to consider investing in a mirror.
Or a book of cliches. There’s a good one you might want to read. It goes “people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”.
You go Josh!!!
WOOT!!!!
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by TennBengalfan on Oct 11, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Because it's his responsibility...
Frustration is definitely getting the better of us all, but let’s not take it out on the one guy who brings us all aspects of the game – good and bad. It was a bad call by the officials – short and simple. Did it cost us the game – doubtful, but the refs should be doing better! Especially during a replay that was so obvious!
SO they don't make that kick
who’s to say Palmer doesn’t throw pick #4 in overtime and set up the game winning kick then? The Bengals STUNK yesterday.
by occams_tiger_teeth on Oct 11, 2010 3:25 PM EDT reply actions
they stunk
and still were in it and, apparently, possibly headed to overtime. No matter how stinky, I’d take those chances.
I could sleep when I lived alone.
Is there a ghost in my house?
RE: Catch?
he only had 1 foot down to begin with, and the fact that this played stood enrages me so much that i can hardly stand it ( if i wasn’t at work i would be firing off curse words and throwing stuff)……whatever though, how about we catch the balls we should catch and play to the level we’re “capable” of….
and not let the ref's bad calls influence the outcome
"They looked far more like they....were trying to screw the football than move it downfield" JungleJohn
someone correct me if i am wrong
During the marvin lewis era his teams dont exactly come out playing very good off a bye week. That has to come to an end in 2 weeks if they want a shot at anything. I am just hope that carson is reading all these blogs about what people are saying about him ( which i am sure he is not ) and comes to life after the bye. On a side not whats this rumble i hear about T.O. and the coaches not getting along very well. T.O. tried to give them some advise on how to make the team better and the coaches refuse to listen to him. That just shows me the arrragance of the coaches not wanting to hear something from someone who has played for a few other teams and knows what he is talking about. Which now brings me to brat. It looks like he has been there way to long and has become very complacent with this team.
by bengalinflorida on Oct 11, 2010 5:06 PM EDT reply actions
Who cares about Carson. They never should have been throwing it with 2:25 left and BUCS had ZERO timeouts
They should have ran the ball, let the time run down to 2 minutes, punted the ball and played defense. They lost yesterday because of piss poor coaching. The defense held the bucs to 7 points until that disastrous play call. Bratwurst is a f-ing moron and needs to be shot. How in god’s name you call a pass play there is beyond me. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE coaching
I just watched the replay and
Gresham was WIDE, I mean WIDE open 6-7 yards in front of Chad. Freakin terrible. But Carsons excuse was they have not run that play all game.
excuses
I see why Gresham was frustrated, he was open all game, you go Jermaine
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by TennBengalfan on Oct 11, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes refs always hose us in Tampa Bay games
see Justin Smith for reference. Clearly the ball hit the turf, I’m sure all the refs looked at under the hood was his feet and they forgot you had to hold the ball too, clearly the ball was on the ground. If Calvin Johnson ball want a catch, neither was this
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Even Thom and Billick were shocked!!
so was I
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by TennBengalfan on Oct 11, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions
wasn't a catch
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by TennBengalfan on Oct 11, 2010 6:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Look guys and gals we can sit and debate this all night long on weither it was a catch or not but the bottom line up front is WE didn’t take care of buisness carson threw 3 picks 1 of which was returned for a TD. Carson this season hasn’t been consistent at all he is up and down every week, the bengas need to go back to the basics we were pounding them on the ground which is what we should have continued to do punish them with the run to set up the pass and take care of the ball and not turn it over that is how we have always won football games we also need to use more of gresham in the passing game we drafted him to be a presence on the field to split the middle of the field so that we could open the passing game and i have only seen gresh targeted rougly about 20x’s this season that is not going to get it. again go back to pounding the football to setup PA and to keep the defense guessing ,this year so far as big as a bengal fan as i am the problem has been carson and Brat. plain and simple
Nope – three picks is what setup the game winning FG. How many times have we lost now with over 140 yrds rushing?!
1 game and it was this game.
Dude didnt have both feet down and didnt control the ball. When he falls out of bounds the ball hits the ground and then he brings it into his chest. I have no idea what those refs were looking at but they completely f-ed up this call. This is becoming a common issue with NFL refs this year.
This whole post sounds like they way the Ravens and their fans cry when they lose.
The Bengals play has already embarrassed us enough. Lets not insult ourselves as well. I like to think we are better than that.
"If we always agree, one of us is not necessary"
100% agreed!
And when trolls come to our site do not respond to their taunting because all they are doing is looking to stir up sh*%. Just ignore them and they will go away.
This is nothing like the Ravens whining
A blown call by the ref’s on the field can not be compared to a mistaken call by the ref’s after a review. Especially as clearly blown call as this one. I am sure that the ref was looking to closely at the feet that he forgot to look at wether it was a reception or not. What I can not understand is that after the Calvin Johnson incident had received such an extended media coverage, this call has not received any attention by the media at all. After all, if this had not been ruled a catch we are talking about only a 50/50 chance of their kicker making the 49 yard FG. And after seeing the Raiders blocking two punts byt the Chargers, anything could have happened. The results of the game should be decided by the play of the players not the refs! I expect an apology by the league later this week.
Bitch about it if you want. It was a free country the last time I looked.
As for me, I say the Bengals got just what they deserved.
"If we always agree, one of us is not necessary"
John Lennon wrote a great song ..........
Cry Baby Cry
Make your mother sigh
You are old enough to know better
So cry, Baby, cry
"If we always agree, one of us is not necessary"
Who the f-ck is crying?
What he is saying is that the refs had 2 chances to make sure this was a catch and they f-ed it up both times. Clearly is was not a catch, not only did he not have both feet down but the ball hit the ground when he fell out of bounds. He did not maintain possession of the ball and it was clear to anyone other then the refs. Now granted this play should have never happened because carson should not have been put in the situation to throw it, while we are up by 7 with 2:25 left and TB had no timeouts. This loss is on the coaches and mainly the ones on the offensive side and Marvin. Stupid is, is stupid does, and this coaching staff has shown over and over again that they are not only stupid but mentally retarded!
Bucs won, deal with it
Santonio Holmes made the same catch in the superbowl as far as the feet are concerned, he didnt get both down during his catch, but 99% of the time when the feet are crossed or clinched together the ref views it as one big foot and it only takes one toe to satisfy them, kinda crazy but it happens alot. as far as the bobble goes, well it’s that part of the rule thats sketchy, Calvin johnsons catch was ruled incmplete because he completely lost the ball, Spurlock still had hands on the ball and even though it moved he still possesed it, he only lost posession when he went to get up. If the original ruling was incomplete the booth review wouldnt have turned that over either, just want enough to reverse call.
The true issue here is how bad your QB is. Carson Palmer has had one good season in like 5 years, when will you guys wake up and realize that since the knee injury he hasnt been the same….dump him, dump T.O., move on
Your an idiot. He didnt maintain possesion when he fell out of bounds.
The catch was made between his chest and the ground. Watch it again moron and maybe you can see what happened!
Your QB???
Dude why are you in the jungle talkin sh-t about our QB and your not a Bengal fan??
by stripes earner on Oct 12, 2010 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Wrong question.
The question isn’t was the call wrong. It was blatantly obviously wrong.
The question is what can we do about it. And short of some sort of class-action lawsuit against the league, the answer is nothing. And even were that feasible, fiddling while Rome burns is more likely to accomplish anything worthwhile.
That pisses me off almost more than the “catch” in the first place.
Like it or not, we lost on a bad call. And there is nothing we can do about it.
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