The QB must be “facing an imminent loss of yardage because of pressure from the defense”. That doesn’t happen in this case of spiking it to kill the clock.

Take away the safety and the Pats would have only needed a field goal on the last drive to win it!

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STHU, crybaby. Your team lost and your wife is mad that you CAN’T “go longer” when you try to hit that.

What I “whine” about is why didn’t TB get out of the tackle box or simply run a couple yards forward to get out of the EZ. Or why didn’t they call a run play there to begin with? It was a mental error on someone’s part, either TB’s or a WR who should have broken towards there and he was anticipating that when he threw. Stuff happens.

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Actually, on a minor note, I’ve seen IG called when the QB wound up throwing it through the back of the endzone (AND when there were receivers a helluva lot closer to it than there were in Brady’s case). Now THAT one was a bad call…

Patriots Fans are complaining about a BAD CALL in a BIG GAME? Go Tuck Yourself!

And I’m a bengals fan, so I obviously hate the raiders, since they now have carson palmer now!

its very similar to the tuck rule , a technically correct rule barely ever called

And I’m a bengals fan, so I obviously hate the raiders, since they now have carson palmer now!

For the last 30 years they made the wrong call in every game in relation to this specific play.

Football fans should wonder why this ruling wasn’t enforced during past games … to help players understand not to do it during big games.

He was outside of the pocket and threw the ball away. However – and how the linesman missed this since it happened right in front of him is beyond me – the ball didn’t make it to the line of scrimmage. Actually, it landed TWO YARDS behind the line of scrimmage. (Al Michaels, surprisingly, failed to notice this, and simply kept talking about how there was no grounding since Brady was out of the pocket, seemingly forgetting the other important part of that rule.)

This ended up being a non-factor, as Brady was sacked on the next play and the Patriots punted, but it was an obvious missed call that could have greatly benefited the Pats.

On that type of play – the call is almost never made, and yes, I watch one hell of lot of football and have for over 60 years.

Personally – I think Intential Grounding is a stupid rule anyway – as the QB should be able to get rid of the ball whenever he has to.
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Sounds about like a Patriots fan…let’s re-write the rules to whatever suits our needs.

On the play you also had two receivers on the left side of the formation run the same route at the same depth, which would be an odd concept. It would make sendse that the ouside receiver was supposed to break to the post instead of the deep-in. Brady lets the ball go as the WR breaks and the result is a throw to empty space that creates a penalty.

And how can you have 12 guys on the field? Geesh – the great Belickick did not have one of his better games.

Personally – I think Intential Grounding is a stupid rule anyway – as the QB should be able to get rid of the ball whenever he has to.

Rules are rules, water is wet, and the Pats lost the Superbowl.
It’s tough putting it that way but if they hadn’t dropped those three sitters (with the possible borderline exception of Branch), you gotta like their chances to score again. As it is they almost pulled off the Hail Mary.
So taking nothing away from the NYG, it was the Pats game to lose on those final two drives and they dropped the ball, literally.

No? Then it wasn’t as clear-cut and blatant as a lot of people think.

It was the technically correct call. Anyone arguing beyond that in either direction ‘doth protest too much.’

QB is inside the tackle box. The ball does not go past the line of scrimmage. The ball is clearly not being thrown in the direction of an eligble receiver (if anything, it almost touches a lineman who is ineligble and therefore could be another penalty altogether).

Is there a special exception in the rule book, if the game has only a few seconds to go and the team is out of/or saving its last timeout, this rule goes out the window so do what you want?

NBC showed a really nice birds eye view of the play…..there was no WR anywhere near where that ball went. It was so far beyond a missed route it wasnt even funny, I think the nearest WR was Ocho Cinco sitting on the bench.

I can understand if there was some ANYWHERE near it, but it wasnt even close. All Tommy Boy had to do was launch it out of bounds over the head of an eligible receiver and it would have been a textbook non-call.

Man he musta really been in some frame of mind to do that on play 1.

Denial isn’t a river in Egypt.

Watched the game with 6 Patriot fans (painful, I know). All agreed that it was a perfectly good call.

Besides, it didn’t decide the game, so why on earth is this being debated?

Brady had a brain fart.