The Inadvertent Whistle Call Last Night

Call was strange. Nobody seemed to react to an inadvertent whistle.

Was curious if what they really meant was they blew the fumble dead and shouldn’t have.

Not to derail the thread, but given how that play unfolded, and independent of any subsequent decisions/actions taken by the refs, what do you believe would have been the most fair outcome of that play based upon what the players did before the whistle?

No idea. It’s still a mystery. The ref closest to the play blew the whistle and signaled incomplete. Players stopped including the Ole Miss player who could have recovered it.

Watching on TV didn't bring any clarity either. Nobody knew just what in the hell was going on.

as soon as the pass was thrown, the line judge responsible signaled it was a backwards pass. however, another ref blew the play dead as an incomplete pass. at first, they thought the best thing to do was to say no play, play the down over. then they realized the rules provided for this situation, which we have seen before. the correct call was to call it a fumble, and award the ball to the team who picked it up. it was a dead ball as soon as it was picked up.

not going to be fair to either side. no one went for the ball once the whistle had blown. but it was correct.

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then they realized the rules provided for this situation

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This is the part I’m curious about. What rule is this?

Dumb & Dumber were officiating the game.

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No idea. It’s still a mystery. The ref closest to the play blew the whistle and signaled incomplete. Players stopped including the Ole Miss player who would have easily recovered it.

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Watkins was the closest, ran up to it and just stopped along with the DB that was covering him. Then Jet sort of trots over reaches down and half heartily picks it up.

I would think that given the reaction they would replay the down. It didn’t matter other than wasting precious time because Rogers fumbled and Ole Miss recovered. However even if it had be a redo Wies would have kept calling horrible plays & we would have gone 3 & out.

Hahahaha so true

I thought I was called poorly. I don’t know the exact wording of the rule for a ball that isn’t immediately ruled a fumble, but thought it was something along the lines of “immediately recovered”. With the time the ball sat idly on the ground, I thought it should have been called dead.

I feel like when we have seen something similar called, the players act like it’s a fumble and dive in the ball, but they all played it like it was a dead ball.