That is not true. He had to get to where the end of the chain is. The white line is just as much as a guess as the yellow line is. If the end of the chain was just short of the white line then JT got the first down even if the ball was moved back 6-8 inches.
That is pure conjecture on your part. You can't read his mind. You have no clue. JT admitted he wasn't 100% certain he got the first down. Mostly because he got spun around. You get hit low and spun 180 degrees and tell me you can tell where forward progress was stopped?
You are incorrect. If a holding call is away from the play a ref will not call it because it has no impact of where the play was going. The rules are not callled 100% of the time They never had and they never will be. Umpires in baseball will call less strikes when a pitcher gets into a favorable count because they don't want to make a bad call. They want the players to make the play not the refs. Refs and umpires are trained to make bad no-calls instead of bad calls.
As for the holding stat, I was talking about the offensive lines.
No holding calls were called all game. Im sure if I look at the video I could spot just as many Michigan holding penalties not called. Don't complain about no calls when Michigan were getting the same ones there.
The only beef I see is the PI call.
It would be JT's. right hand, not left.
Also, the camera is not that off to make the ball significantly further back. IF the ball was far enough forward for the refs to not even measure then that angle maybe at best forces a measurement. It doesn't validate Jim's assertion that the ball was 8 inches short of the line.
More inline photo's have come forward showing JT's right elbow is at the white line, where they marked the ball. At best the ref's gave OSU maybe 2-4 inches more. The first down line was before the white line. I think OSU still would have gotten the first down by half a football.
Too bad for Jim, the first down call was correct.
JT was running for the FD, and he was hit by the Mich. player. He didn't immediately hit the ground, but flew into his own man. Which means he gets forward progress. That is how the rule is written.
When a WR jumps to catch a ball and then is driven back by a defensive player he is given the spot where he caught the ball, not where he landed.
Multiple images have been showing JT's upper body is over the yellow line. Jim had a horrible angle being on the sideline on the opposite side. What he saw was where JT landed, not where his forward progress was at.
Was the PI call bad, yea. I think it should have been a PI call if they called the same thing earlier.
As for holding, not one holding call was thrown all game. The refs let the lineman play. I do not mind that. You can't complain about a holding call when the refs were not calling it all game long and give Mich. lineman the same treatment.
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