![]() See one thing clear as day, and it ends up getting called the other way. James: "Any time there’s a challenge, I never really know what’s going to happen. Villanueva: "I remember saying, ‘Oh, Dave, we won the game.’ Then I asked Jesse, and he said, ‘Oh, they are going to review it.’" I was hoping it went our way, and it did.” The Review If that wasn’t a catch, this wasn’t a catch. When they showed it on the JumboTron, I immediately knew, ‘That’s not a catch!’ First thing that went into my head was Dez Bryant. Patriots receiver Phillip Dorsett: “When I saw it at first, obviously we thought we lost. In a game like that, when you go down and you finish the game like that, and then - boom - momentum, and the next thing you know said he didn't have control of the ball. Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster after the game: "I feel like he had ball control, he was in. I don’t know what’s real and what’s fiction.” I remember watching the pass, but what’s crazy is I don’t even know. I remember him stretching, feeling he was cognizant of where the goal line was and he reached out to make it. Steelers tackle Alejandro Villanueva: “I remember seeing Jesse catch the ball and making an effort to get over the goal line. Looking back, I wish I would have stayed on my feet.” Had a little makeshift (play), like (Roethlisberger) always does. We were trying to run a flat out to the front side. The Play Jesse James appears to make a catch and has a knee down before lunging for the goal line. It would have been a catch with the new rule.Īs the Steelers prepare to host the Patriots on Sunday in a game with major playoff implications, both sides recall a play that will live in infamy in Pittsburgh and with less controversy in Foxborough. So we can’t even talk about that anymore because that play is a no-catch with an old rule.” “It wasn’t no famous play," Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey told ESPN on Thursday. Plays where your eyes told you it was a catch, but the rule left officials with no choice but to rule incomplete. In fact, it may have been the tipping point, the play that rid the NFL of the handful of "eye test" fails that caused outsized controversy each year. It was one of many controversial rulings on what constitutes a catch. Duron Harmon intercepted Ben Roethlisberger two plays later to seal the New England Patriots' 27-24 win. They said he didn't survive the ground, meaning the ball moved when he fell in the end zone. 17, 2017, then his fears were realized when officials in New York overturned his apparent touchdown. If James was expecting the worst nearly one year ago, on Dec. "You just expect the worst whenever it’s put up in someone in New York’s hands." - Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Jesse James, a year later
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