By rule it wasn’t a catch.
Common sense tells you it was a catch, but the NFL as we all know makes up their own rules, so you have to live with it. Cowboys VP Stephen Jones is on the competition committee and voted in favor of the Calvin Johnson rule, so he shouldn’t be complaining.
In a further twist of fate, Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones – a member of the NFL Competition Committee – has actually voted on the Calvin Johnson Rule in the past. Jones said he thought Bryant did enough to prove it was a catch, but he acknowledged it was open to interpretation.
“It’s a debatable deal. I will say it’s a tough call,” Jones said. “It’s one we spend ad nauseam hours and hours and hours of trying to figure out this Megatron play. There are others that get a lot of time spent on them, but that one is right at the top.’’
If the NFL just made the rule simple then this wouldn’t be problem. If you catch the ball and get two feet or any other part of your body down with control of the ball it is a catch. I don’t know why they make things so complicated.