That is, if you have any. Behold, the Georgia Social Media team has a better view of Georgia’s robbed touchdown from Saturday night, which many a Barner is claiming a robbed touchdown from the Plainsmen.
Since your Auburn friends are not likely readers, consider this a story best told in pictures. Here are stills from the video to show just what happened.
Here, you can see the Arnold has the ball…kind of…but has not crossed the plane. Notice his grasp of the ball in tenuous, at best. Circled in red is a fist. It belongs to CJ Allen, who was wearing white gloves. At this point I’d like to note that Allen’s fist is across the plan and into the field of play, out of the end zone.
Notice that the ball is no longer visible. Nor is CJ’s hand. Not a coincidence, as Allen dislodged the ball with the punch. Also notice that Arnold’s hand isn’t across the plane either, but given the ball isn’t there, it’s impossible to say he could’ve crossed the plane with possession. Notice Wilson is also making a play in the ball, with black gloves.
Here’s the ball now, and Arnold seems to have his left hand on the back of the ball but he isn’t possessing it. Also notice Wilson is now punching the loose ball. The loose ball that still isn’t over the plane.
Ball is fully dislodged, full punch extension from Wilson. Gotta say that’s some good coaching or great instincts. Either way, the one-two punch was effective. Also notice the ball isn’t live, not hitting the ground.
The ball dances around over rear ends and helmets. The glove you see possessing the ball now is Jones. He ran the other way with a live ball, with no whistle blowing the play dead, for what was supposed to be a touchdown for the Dawgs. We won, anyway, so I guess we can’t cry over it. Auburn certainly seems to be doing a fine job of that on their own.
Anyway, another Twix sleuth posted this, so case closed:
Cope, assholes. Your fake national titles and incredulous insistence that everything done with Chizik and Newton were above board and you dare gripe about this?
40 yards in the second half doesn’t bode well for the outcome of the game, but the point spread could’ve been different. I guess.
Actually, we didn’t score a TD anyway. We kicked a field goal to make it 10-3 at halftime. Those 4 points *coul d* have cost us the game and SEC refs are still an embarrassment.
True and corrected.
We drove the length of the field from the 1 with under 2:00 to kick what ended up as a chip shot field goal. Most people would say that’s pretty darn good. We got a couple of correctly called penalties to help out.
The offense looked bad in the first half, but that drive was pretty darn good.
Yep. We drove 53 yards from our 1 inch line before Auburn gave us some penalties. Helluva drive under the circumstances.
A lot of people in media have come around to the fact that the right call was made on the field. Josh Pate said it on Sunday night. Brandon Adams said the press box thought with the TV angles without McDonough and McElroy’s blabbering that it was called right. McElroy didn’t want to go on his WJOX show on Monday morning and take grief from the Auburn family on this.
If nothing else, we got screwed out of 4 points as a result of the fumble return.
How is it that the SEC officials didn’t have access to video review as clear as what we’re seeing here? For a conference with more money than God, you’d think they could afford better technology.
I’m guessing it’s the ESPN video cameras inside the pylons that are the problem.
As for the penalties in the game, the Targeting call was correct, the Roughing the Passer call was correct, the Blindside Block was total BS, which cost us a TD or at least a chipshot FG (and we ended up missing the longer 45 yard FG, barely). There were many other non-calls on both sides (numerous offensive line holding, but that’s normal) and also some defensive back holding or pass interference non-calls on Auburn, so there’s plenty of things that UGA could complain about too, but we pressed on and overcame those things. The 1 thing that Auburn fans fail to admit is that their team crumbled, quit and lost their composurre after the fumble call and never recovered. They lost because they are not mentally tough and we won because we are.
Arnold’s left hand at the goal line….pinky off, thumb off, palm and three fingers pressing. Is that control or proof of ball coming loose? Right hand hidden and could give benefit of the doubt he’s got a grip. If that’s Gunner I think we’re complaining too. But I LOVE Auburn believing they got screwed…again. No one deserves it more. Happy to oblige. #FTMF
The blindside block call on Cash was a peace offering from an official to the Auburn crazies.
A Make-up call.
That ref was looking for something to get the monkey off his back…so he put aside his pledge to be unbiased and took something from the visiting team, deciding to be a “player” on that one play.
Shameful but the truth is that refs and umpires do that crap all the time.
That took away 7 (90 percent chance) and the UGA touchdown they ignored after the crumble took away 4 (if you deduct the ensuing FG). So the final (if the refs were competent) should’ve/would’ve been 31-10 Dawgs. Probably even worse because had Georgia been awarded the touchdown (it was a UGA TD and I think the refs were just afraid to call it) after the crumble, the adverse, self destructive behavior of the F (Freeze) Troop would have been even worse.
But KUDOS to the Auburn fans who demonstrated that, while they do suck they can’t hold a candle to the losers in Austin when it comes to intimidating the refs to get their way.
We can defend SEC teams, scheduling, records, but what we can’t do is defend SEC officiating. It is an absolute embarrassment. We are now essentially playing PRO football, but we are still stuck with rejects that would have a hard time getting a job officiating a PEE WEE league. We are letting them call the games in front of a national audience. The SEC is the top feeder league for the NFL, so why not enter into an agreement to let the SEC become the minor league training ground for future NFL officials. Full time employees who get graded on results and let go if they fail to meet the standards.
Love the game monicker. And first post on Refugees. 😁