00:00All I know is that last night, at 7.30, obviously the game started closer to 8 o'clock, but at 7.30, I was locked in and loaded.
00:08And I got a gift last night.
00:10As much as we're waiting for the NFL playoffs to start tomorrow, and then Sunday, and then Monday night, we as sports fans got a gift.
00:19Miami, Ole Miss was one of the great college football games.
00:23And the fact that it determined who goes to the championship game a week from Monday was everything we love about sports.
00:32Crazy plays, bad refereeing, questionable refereeing, turnovers, turnover opportunities that were dropped, clutch plays by quarterbacks, one-handed catches by ridiculous wide receivers.
00:46I just want to thank the University of Miami and Ole Miss.
00:50I have no rooting interest other than my kids went to Miami, so of course I wanted Miami to win, so I guess I did have a rooting interest in the game.
00:57But I don't gamble on the game.
00:58I didn't go to either school.
01:00And I was able to watch that game as a pure football fan.
01:05And here's the question for you.
01:08Should the referees have thrown the flag on the final play of the game and called pass interference on the Dolphin defense?
01:17Dolphin.
01:17On the Miami defense.
01:18I'm going to say yes.
01:21Wow.
01:22I'm going to say yes, but I like to look a lot of times at the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
01:27Okay, go.
01:28Okay?
01:28The letter of the law absolutely throw the flag because he did make contact while the ball was in the air.
01:32He was holding a guy's inside, like, his pads.
01:37Right.
01:38For a good five or six yards, that'll be fair.
01:40The wide receivers also got his arm extended into the defensive back.
01:44Go ahead.
01:44And then the other part is it was a catchable enough ball.
01:47It wasn't a crazy – it's in the air.
01:48Yeah, it wasn't 10 yards out of the air.
01:50Right.
01:50That's right.
01:50By the spirit, though, was there contact when the player made – did it impede him from making a play on the ball?
01:58In my opinion, I say no.
02:00It did not impede him on making a play on the ball.
02:01Okay.
02:02In my opinion.
02:03So, by the letter of the law, you throw the flag.
02:05By the spirit, I don't think so.
02:07Yeah, like, so, was it interference?
02:09Yeah, it probably was.
02:10Yeah.
02:11I'm glad they didn't make the call.
02:12I agree.
02:12Because I hate when officials dictate the outcome of games.
02:15That'll be fair.
02:16If it's a pass interference, it should be called no matter what time we are in the game.
02:20But here's the real reason why I'm happy they didn't throw the flag there.
02:24Because I thought the officials screwed Miami twice before that.
02:27Yes.
02:27And I thought they screwed Miami on the targeting call, which I did not think was targeting at all.
02:32I agree with that.
02:33I just thought it was a good play.
02:34And that ball was nowhere near being caught on the third down play.
02:38Yep.
02:38Which extended the drive and then allowed Chambliss – Chambliss.
02:42Yeah, Chambliss.
02:42Yeah, yeah.
02:43To throw the touchdown pass.
02:44Yep.
02:44The kid played money great.
02:45And I feel terrible for that kid that that's how his NFL college career might come to an end.
02:50He's appealing to get one more year, of course, to play at Ole Miss.
02:53So, I thought the referees butchered that one.
02:56That's the thing.
02:56And it put Miami on that touchdown play without both of their starting corners.
03:01They got hurt.
03:02Yeah, one guy got hurt.
03:03The other guy is targeting.
03:04So, now on a big play, that could have been a game-deciding play without both starting corners.
03:09Yeah.
03:09And then on the third down play on the second to last drive for Ole Miss, when they called pass interference on the slant play on third down.
03:17And it was like third and long.
03:19I thought that was another egregious call.
03:21I agree.
03:21And the thing that bothers me the most – maybe the guys downstairs can give me a name because I forget the guy's name.
03:26You know, I'm so sick and tired of broadcast going to their in-studio official expert, right, to let us know, do you agree with the call or not?
03:38Because the clown that was doing it last night was horrendous.
03:42First off, he agreed with every single call that the officials made.
03:47And on the one call, the targeting call that went against Ole Miss that they reviewed, and they rightfully so, overturned it because it was not targeting.
03:57When they first called the targeting and they go to their rules expert, the guy goes, oh, yeah, total targeting.
04:04Yeah, kick him out of the game.
04:06That was headhunting.
04:07And we're like, what are you talking about?
04:10He wasn't targeting at all.
04:12And I thought they did a good job overturning it.
04:13They did.
04:14And then when they overturned it, the guy tried to come up with some weird excuse for why all of a sudden it's not targeting.
04:20Yeah, if you look a little closer, you can see – I didn't see this angle before.
04:25They're a waste in the NFL.
04:27It was worse last night because they don't want to call out the brethren in their –
04:32Which is the whole point of having a guy there.
04:35It's a guy that used to do it, a guy that's an expert on the rules, and a guy that should tell us that what you and I see with our own eyes, we're seeing.
04:44So if you and I watch a play, and let's say we're dimensionally opposed, you like one team, I like the other team.
04:50But you and I can look at a video, and we can agree on that was or was not X, Y, Z.
04:56Whatever it was, right.
04:57The purpose of having the ex-official in the booth is to confirm for us what we saw.
05:04Exactly.
05:04It's not going to change the call on the field because he's not on the field.
05:08But it's nice every once in a while to have a guy say, I got to tell you guys, I do not agree with that call.
05:15That's the purpose of it.
05:17It is.
05:17That guy did the opposite.
05:18He did the opposite.
05:19He also could explain, here maybe I disagree with it, but here's maybe why the refs called it this way.
05:25Right.
05:25But they never do that.
05:26This is what we're taught.
05:26This is why.
05:28Instead, they just rubber stamp.
05:29Those guys on the field are always right, and we know they're not always right.
05:32We know that.
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