Giants say refs blew it on interception

ymakerpi8d · Thu Jun 08, 2023 5:08 am

One of the most controversial plays of Week 7 took place during the ' 24-7 win over the on Sunday. Although the game ended up being a blowout, things were still close when the drama unfolded between Giants safety and Seahawks receiver on a wild play midway through the fourth quarter.With Seattle up 10-7 and just 9:49 left to play in the game, Chris Webber Jersey the Seahawks decided to run a trick play from the Giants' 38-yard line to try and get into the end zone. On the play, pitched the ball to running back J.D. McKi sic, who then lateraled the ball back to Wilson, who then threw up a prayer that ended up being answered by Richardson -- with some help from referee Tony Corrente. Play stands! What a grab, ! Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) What you see there is Collins and Richardson both coming down with the ball in a case of simultaneous po se sion, which is something the Seahawks seem to have perfected. The most famous case of simultaneous po se sion came back in 2012 when Wilson threw up a pa s that we now know as the Fail Mary. On the final play of a 14-12 win over the , Wilson's pa s was caught by , which led to the most famous ruling of all-time. Today is the 5th anniversary of this nonsense Matt Johnson (@mj_fester) One replacement ref said touchdown while the other one signaled touchback. After the game, the replacement refs were replaced by the real refs as the NFL quickly worked to end the lockout that was going on between the Reggie Theus Jersey league and its officials. In the Seahawks-Giants game, we saw almost the same thing. After Richardson's catch, the ruling on the field was that he had scored a touchdown, and a review of the play ended up confirming that.However, the man who ended up with the ball definitely didn't agree with the ruling. Collins, who was covering Richardson, made it clear that he came up with an interception on the play."It was an interception," Collins said, via quotes provided by the team. "Once I rolled over, he was trying to fight back into po se sion for it. Once that happened he had no po se sion of the ball anymore. It's crazy." After the touchdown, Collins wasn't really worried because he figured the call would get overturned after a review."It had to get overturned ," Collins said. "Once you saw it, you could blatantly see it was on my chest. Once the referee could see it, it was like he has po se sion of Mike Bibby Jersey the ball. I turned over and he was trying to fight into my arms to get it. That was my ball."Giants coach Ben McAdoo was also upset with the call. According to McAdoo, at the very least, the pa s should've been ruled incomplete because Richardson's foot was out of bounds for part of it. "We'll go look at the tape, but I did not think he had po se sion of the ball before his foot hit the white," McAdoo said after the game.Giants corner had a good look at the play and he thought officials blew it by ruling that Richardson had scored a touchdown."That was wrong. He definitely didn't have po se sion at all," DRC said. "They both hit the ground. One thing about it is you have to have a complete catch to the ground. By the time his knee was down, Landon had already taken the ball from him, that was the wrong Cory Joseph Jersey call." After the game, Corrente tried to explain why his crew got the call right."The receiver went into the air, had control of the ball, lost control, re-grasped the ball and at the same time he did, the defender grabbed the ball, also," Corrente said in the official pool report. "They went to the ground simultaneously with the football. Then they started a little wrestling match. It's over now."Corrente also added that it didn't matter that Collins came up with the Willie Cauley-Stein Jersey ball because Richardson had already technically scored a touchdown."That catch is established because if the defender was to pull the ball out of his hands now, it's still a catch because the defender has a second action," Corrente said. "So at that point when they were on the ground together, and they're tu sling to begin with, the catch is over, that's the touchdown. Now, after that is when he rolled over and we don't have any clear view of, quote unquote, anything happening after that. So that's where it stands. It's been a rough two weeks for Corrente, who was also at MetLife Stadium last week in the ' 24-17 win over the .