re: Al.com Published 2 Articles Stating the Case for Who Should be Our Starting QB

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Agree except the flag wasn’t thrown and there’s no guarantee it would have been thrown.

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Yes, the flag had not yet been thrown because referee's exist on the same timeline as us, see the play unfold, and then reach for and throw the flag after the foul is committed. Ridley caught the TD - no need to reach for laundry. And based on the blatantly obvious nature of hitting and wrapping up the intended WR (removing Ridley from the equation) with both arms, I'm very confident the flag would have been thrown.

Yes, that play was 4th down and filled with anxiety at the time, but the notion that Ridley catching it was some miracle is nonsense. We were running slants on the goal line, and if the play extends, it turns into crossing routes. One WR catching the ball in front of another crossing reciever is not a miracle. A great play and certainly fortunate, but not some other-worldly phenomenon. And the PI would have been called 999 times out of 1,000.