Did he catch it or not?

[rick4bama]

http://www.foxsports.com/southwest/...hnson-rule-011215?cmpid=tsmfb:fscom:foxsports
I'm a Packers fan so no!

 

[planomateo]

No question in my book, he caught it. According to the rules, he didn't.

I'm not a Cowboys fan, I was pulling for Green Bay.

 

[PhillyGirl]

According to the rules .. no, he did not.

 

[planomateo]

Via today's MMQB. Interesting comment by HC Jeff Fisher who is also the co-chairman of the NFL's competition committee.

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Regarding the discussion of what is a catch, could you see that being amended this year, or is it too much of a rabbit hole to go down?

Fisher: “There will be a discussion. It’s going to be difficult to change it—particularly because of the standard and replay. It’s one of those areas where I think we have two standards. The bang-bang on-the-field call and then the replay standard, where it’s frame-by-frame-by-frame. I just think that we have to have a rule that is defined—that’s a bright line—so it can be officiated. And I think we have that with the catch now.”

So the co-chair of the rules committee sounds like he thinks it will be tough to make a change in what everyone was screaming about after the Dez Bryant non-catch in the playoffs. I asked Fisher about the chance of calling a catch a catch as soon as the player possesses the ball with two feet on the ground—without the so-called “making a football move” to finish the process of a catch. “Then,” he said, “you’d be eliminating the defenseless player aspect of the whole thing.”

Cowboy fans, get your outrage ready. The league meetings are four weeks away.