Plain as day on my cheap ass laptop screen...

[Jeremy Igo]

 

Are the officials working on etch-a-sketches or something?

 

[JawnyBlaze]

Can’t see what you posted but I assume you mean the forward pass they called a fumble?  Yea, was obvious to me in real time and even more so on replay

 

edit: see it now. Yep. Pretty obviously a forward pass

[FugginPoo]

Why was this not challenged 

[Jeremy Igo]

Just now, FugginPoo said:

Why was this not challenged 

It was already reviewed automatically. 

[jfra78]

1 minute ago, FugginPoo said:

Why was this not challenged 

It was reviewed automatically because it was a turnover

[jfra78]

Just now, Jeremy Igo said:

It was already reviewed automatically. 

The problem is they called it a fumble on the field.  Like they should have done on the catch that's not a catch that could be a fumble but we will just call it incomplete.

[Greatman77]

I don't believe in any anti-Panther conspiracy by the NFL but Jeezus that was some horrible officiating.

[CarolinaSock]

I believe the claim was his pass was thrown backwards before it was tipped so he tipped a lateral and not a pass. I don't agree with it but that seemed to be the reasoning.

[Khyber53]

And we just have to move on. They don't void victories and there is no replaying the game. I mean, the Patriots got away with the biggest cheating scandal(s) in NFL history and we see what happened there.

Move along folks, 15 more games to win ahead of us.

[Jeremy Igo]

Delhomme thought it would be Panthers ball also.

[TheRumGone]

Yeah. This is why I refuse to let games get me mad anymore after 2015 Super Bowl. I just enjoy watching our players good or bad. 

[Rastlet]

It was tipped so close to release that it made it really hard to tell. The bad call was the knee down catch not a fumble crap.

[uncfan888]

The refs screwed us on this and the rams fumble. A lot of things went against us yesterday and we still had a chance to win. People need to relax 

[shaka]

"In American football and Canadian football, a lateral pass or lateral (officially backward pass in American football and onside pass in Canadian football) occurs when the ball carrier throws the football to a teammate in a direction parallel to or away from the opponents' goal line. "

 

The question isn't if the ball was tipped.  Go back and look at the play again, the ref in the endzone saw it was tipped.  Can you tell in that 3-5 yards the ball is in the air before it's tipped that it is clearly going towards the opponents goal line?  It's a really tough call and would be hard to overturn. 

 

Was it the right call on the field?  I don't think so.  But it is one of those times where it's almost impossible to over turn.