>good thing this didn't cost us
Carlos should have kept that shit on the sideline instead of running into Brady like a dumbass and it would have been 7, but yeah. Pats didn't even score on the turnover i think, maybe a field goal?


>http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/20/nfl-admits-officials-replay-assistant-screwed-up-on-49ers-fumble/related/
>
>NFL admits officials, replay assistant screwed up on 49ers
>fumble
>
>During the first quarter of Sunday’s 49ers-Patriots game, San
>Francisco’s Colin Kaepernick hit Delanie Walker with a pass,
>and New England’s Steve Gregory hit Walker just as he grabbed
>the ball, knocking it loose. Aqib Talib picked the ball up,
>and the officials ruled it a fumble recovered by the
>Patriots.
>
>One problem: Walker never had possession of the ball. Another
>problem: The replay assistant who is supposed to review all
>turnovers and tell the referee to take a closer look at the
>close calls never told the ref to review the play.
>
>The officials got the play wrong on the field, but NFL
>director of instant replay Dean Blandino placed the blame on
>the replay assistant in an appearance on NFL Network.
>
>“This actually never went to review,” Blandino said. “The
>replay official confirmed it upstairs without bringing the
>referee over. And that’s a mistake. We need to bring the
>referee over.”
>
>Blandino said the replay official made the mistake of watching
>the replay in slow motion, which made it look like Walker had
>control of the ball for long enough to constitute a catch. But
>the replay official should have watched the replay at full
>speed, which would have shown that Gregory knocked the ball
>out of Walker’s hands just as Walker grabbed it.
>
>“He slowed it down,” Blandino said. “If you go frame-by-frame
>you distort the time element and you can make it look like he
>has it longer than he does. We want to watch it at full
>speed.”
>
>Still, Blandino said that the referee can’t take the time to
>review every single scoring play and turnover, and so the job
>needs to be the replay official’s to do.
>
>“We have to be cognizant of the delays that replay causes in
>the game,” Blandino said. “We’ve given the replay official —
>that’s his jurisdiction. He has to make those decisions.”
>
>Unfortunately, too often this season we’ve seen the replay
>official make the wrong decision.
>
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