degenerasian wrote:This is true, once the ball leaves the QBs hand it can no longer be holding so it's either PI or not.
Uh, no. If that was the case there would be muggings on every pass; on every play you'd see DBs with an eye on the QB so they can wrap up receivers the instant a ball is thrown. You may be getting that confused with turnovers.
Fact is, the Patriot receiver was denied a chance to attempt catching a ball because he was completely wrapped up. Whether or not the ball was "catchable" is irrelevant; it is because of the holding that the receiver was never in a position to justly rule if the ball could be caught.
"Uncatchable" is almost always called when a ball is thrown out of bounds, a mile over everyone's heads; this pass was in the middle of endzone, numbers height and in the vicinity of the receiver. Saying a receiver would not have been able to catch a ball "anyway", a ball that would have crossed his path, that was a yard or two away, is a cop out.
Calling that uncatchable is as absurd as calling a dropped hail mary "intentional grounding".
Carolina got away with one there. A big one.