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Safety or no safety?

  • dwccrew
    Personally, I thought it was a safety. Before the call was made I was screaming because I knew it would get called. It looked like he was going to get the forward progress call but he made a move. What is everyone else's opinion?
  • wildcats20
    Safety.

    I think if he just goes down with the first guy(#1), it would have been ruled forward progress at the 2. But since he continued to try(can't blame him) to get more yardage, the right call was made.
  • Pick6
    ok..maybe it was a late whistle and should have been stopped..but he broke the tackle, then was tackled in the endzone. therefore, safety.
  • Cleveland Buck
    It was a travesty. The whistle should have blown before he had the chance to get away from the first guy.
  • karen lotz
    Safety. He broke the tackle before any whistle and was attempting to gain yardage. If he goes down at any point before breaking the tackle he is given forward progress.
  • wildcats20
    Someone else said that had he broke that tackle and gone for a 99 yard TD run, the TD would have stood up.
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC SEC!!!!!
  • hoops23
    It was a terrible call IMO.

    So now, you're telling me a defender can push the offensive player back (forward progress should have been stopped there, right?) and just falls off, letting a teammate get the tackle in the endzone, it's a safety now?
  • karen lotz
    If the ball carrier is still trying to fight for yardage yes.
  • Pick6
    hoops23;626196 wrote:It was a terrible call IMO.

    So now, you're telling me a defender can push the offensive player back (forward progress should have been stopped there, right?) and just falls off, letting a teammate get the tackle in the endzone, it's a safety now?

    the only thing thats up for debate about it being a bad call is that the whistle should have been blown sooner. however, in the events that happened, it was correct.
  • Mulva
    It was a safety by the rulebook, and not a safety by the actual play.

    The whistle should have been blown, as forward progress was clearly stopped somewhere in the 3-4 yards he was pushed backwards. So the refs still fucked it up.
  • wildcats20
    Pick6;626209 wrote:the only thing thats up for debate about it being a bad call is that the whistle should have been blown sooner. however, in the events that happened, it was correct.
    Mulva;626212 wrote:It was a safety by the rulebook, and not a safety by the actual play.

    The whistle should have been blown, as forward progress was clearly stopped somewhere in the 3-4 yards he was pushed backwards. So the refs still fucked it up.

    These.
  • hoops23
    karen lotz;626205 wrote:If the ball carrier is still trying to fight for yardage yes.

    LOL.

    So the offensive player is supposed to just stop trying?

    Once an offensive player is pushed back (as Boom was, about 3 or 4 yards) the play should be whistled dead at the spot of initial contact. It doesn't matter if the offensive player is still fighting or not, unless said offensive player is continuing forward, hence forward progress.
  • wildcats20
    hoops23;626216 wrote:LOL.

    So the offensive player is supposed to just stop trying?

    Once an offensive player is pushed back (as Boom was, about 3 or 4 yards) the play should be whistled dead at the spot of initial contact. It doesn't matter if the offensive player is still fighting or not, unless said offensive player is continuing forward, hence forward progress.

    Really?? How many times have you seen TP get hit backward and then run for 20 yards? Come on man...
  • karen lotz
    hoops23;626216 wrote:LOL.

    So the offensive player is supposed to just stop trying?

    Once an offensive player is pushed back (as Boom was, about 3 or 4 yards) the play should be whistled dead at the spot of initial contact. It doesn't matter if the offensive player is still fighting or not, unless said offensive player is continuing forward, hence forward progress.
    Like others have said, the whistle hadn't blown, he broke the tackle and then started to make a move. If he had been held up at the 2 instead of being driven back, the whistle had not blown, he broke the tackle, then ran back into the end zone on his own, and then was tackled in the end zone, it still would have been a safety. He doesn't necessarily have to be moving forward as long has he is not in the grasp. You must not watch a lot of football.
  • hoops23
    wildcats20;626218 wrote:Really?? How many times have you seen TP get hit backward and then run for 20 yards? Come on man...

    Getting hit is A LOT different than being grabbed and pushed back for 3 or 4 yards.

    There is a BIG difference in those two scenarios.

    I'm going by the rule. And the refs blew it. It doesn't even matter in the end though, so I don't really care.
  • hoops23
    karen lotz;626223 wrote:Like others have said, the whistle hadn't blown, he broke the tackle and then started to make a move. If he had been held up at the 2 instead of being driven back, the whistle had not blown, he broke the tackle, then ran back into the end zone on his own, and then was tackled in the end zone, it still would have been a safety. He doesn't necessarily have to be moving forward as long has he is not in the grasp. You must not watch a lot of football.

    Dude, get the fuck out of here with the "You must not watch football" comment.. Obviously your dumbass doesn't watch shit. When you are PUSHED BACK for a few yards, FORWARD PROGRESS IS STOPPED.

    The ref didn't blow the whistle. He should have. Shit happens. OSU won. Get over it.
  • karen lotz
    hoops23;626229 wrote:Getting hit is A LOT different than being grabbed and pushed back for 3 or 4 yards.

    There is a BIG difference in those two scenarios.

    I'm going by the rule. And the refs blew it. It doesn't even matter in the end though, so I don't really care.


    No, you aren't going by the rule. He wasn't given forward progress because the whistle wasn't blown.
  • karen lotz
    hoops23;626237 wrote:Dude, get the fuck out of here with the "You must not watch football" comment.. Obviously your dumbass doesn't watch shit. When you are PUSHED BACK for a few yards, FORWARD PROGRESS IS STOPPED.

    The ref didn't blow the whistle. He should have. Shit happens. OSU won. Get over it.
    It happens quite often, usually when a player is fighting for extra yardage to get a first down.

    So if someone is running a crossing route, catches the pass, gets blasted by a linebacker and is forced backwards a few yards, but doesn't fall down, his forward progress is stopped? If you honestly believe that, you should stop discussing football.
  • hoops23
    karen lotz;626239 wrote:No, you aren't going by the rule. He wasn't given forward progress because the whistle wasn't blown.

    K, but it should have been. I mean, even the announcers said it? You hardly see JT argue a call as well.... so....

    Again though, it doesn't really matter in the end. I gave my opinion on the matter, can;t really help if you don't understand/like it...
  • Enforcer
    WHO CARES WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • karen lotz
    Also this has nothing to do with OSU winning or losing, obviously. I thought they would and I won some decent money on it tonight. There is nothing for me to get over other than your inability to discuss something without going into a "suck a fucking dick" rant.
  • wildcats20
    hoops23;626229 wrote:Getting hit is A LOT different than being grabbed and pushed back for 3 or 4 yards.

    There is a BIG difference in those two scenarios.

    I'm going by the rule. And the refs blew it. It doesn't even matter in the end though, so I don't really care.

    Getting hit backward and being pushed backward are both, but what you are saying, an example of "forward progress stopping"
  • CinciX12
    The opportunity for Herron to break that tackle shouldn't have existed. But that being said, if he is dumb enough to break the tackle and it didn't cost them a win then I am glad it happened to him. Got to be smarter than that. Just go down.
  • Cleveland Buck
    Even when he finally broke away from the first guy in the end zone it's not like he starting moving forward. He was immediately driven further back by 2 more guys. Therefore, his forward progress was stopped at the 2 yard line. Just because the inbred southern boy official didn't blow his whistle doesn't change that fact.