Originally Posted by BigRedChief (Post 11244229)

That creeps me out.

Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 11244402)

Messing with the receiver in what way? The receiver is the one initiating the contact. If that's DPI its ticky tacky as hell. Should he be back pedaling the whole way in order to defend against a severely underthrown ball? Literally the only contact he made with the receiver, before getting hit in the back with the ball, was putting his hand on his shoulder pad which in no way impacted the receivers ability to catch an uncatchable ball.

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball (Post 11244432)

Watch the game much? It's called defensive PI every time.

Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 11244435)

Not really.

I've witnessed plenty of times where a defender doesn't play the ball and doesn't get called for DPI.

If the Dallas player ran through the receiver that was trying to come back to the ball then I would call it DPI, but he doesn't. The only contact he makes with the receiver is when they are both arm checking eachother. To call that interference just because the QB threw the ball in his back is just ignorant.

Originally Posted by mr. tegu (Post 11244449)

Are you suggesting that Pettigrew was making no effort to stop his momentum to catch the ball?

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball (Post 11244447)

You are right. The defender commits PI, it's announced as such, and overturned every week ROFL It is blatant PI that's called every week.

Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 11244455)

Does it matter when the defender didn't make contact with him before the ball hit him in the back? He had his hand on his shoulder for .5 a second that didn't alter the receiver in any way. How is that DPI?

Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 11244463)

You're reeruned. I'm not arguing if they called it as such and then later picked up the flag. I didn't even watch the ****ing game.

That's simply not DPI just because he wasn't playing the ball. I mean holy shit... It's called and not called every ****ing week, dumbass. The defender did nothing to interfere with the receiver. It was a bad pass that hit him in the back.

Are you going to start arguing PI every time a defender isn't playing the ball but sticks his hand up and the ball hits the back of his hand?

Originally Posted by Pasta Giant Meatball (Post 11244470)

You didn't watch the game ROFL When a defender doesn't turn his head around and makes contact as we see in the gif....it's called every damn time...but today.

Originally Posted by jd1020 (Post 11244471)

He made contact AFTER the ball hit him... Are you saying him having his hand on his shoulder pad interfered with the receiver?

Originally Posted by Rain Man (Post 11244335)

The sad thing for me is that I can't tell if that's pass interference or not. I would lean toward no, but that's just because I'm using common sense and not trying to interpret based on the NFL's current pansy rules.

Using common sense, I ask myself, "Did the defender make contact in a way that prevented the receiver from catching the ball?" I mean, that is the original point of the rule, right? The ball hit the defender in the back. The receiver was not going to catch that due to the defender's position, and any contact between the two had nothing to do with the fact that the ball wasn't caught. I view hitting the defender's back as being no different than hitting a lineman's hand when it's thrown. It's a defensed pass, no matter how inadvertent.