00:00So there were three controversial calls in this game
00:05that went in favor of the Texans.
00:07Says you.
00:08I thought every call was immaculate.
00:10Well, let's see.
00:11We've got the explanations here.
00:12There were three calls in particular that Colts fans were most upset about.
00:17There were a few that were listing other things here,
00:19and 90% of the list, I'm like, Texans can say the same thing.
00:23Holding call on this play, blah, blah, blah.
00:25Stop it.
00:26Right.
00:26Hold on third and four with eight minutes left in the third quarter.
00:30Like, okay, shut up.
00:33But these plays I'm willing to entertain at least.
00:35So let's see, Seth.
00:36I've got the explanations.
00:37It's the three plays, the three instances I should say,
00:41because two of them happened on the same play.
00:43The missed, perceived missed delay of game call against the Texans
00:50on a third down in Colts territory just at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
00:55A pass interference call on that same play and then the ensuing extra point
01:00after the Texans would go on to score a touchdown there.
01:04So here are the explanations, and you tell me if you think these explanations
01:07by Clay Martin, the lead official, hold up.
01:10Okay?
01:11This is in regard to the delay of game with 14-51 remaining in the fourth quarter,
01:17and the Texans snapped the ball a second after the play clock had expired.
01:22Why was delay of game not called on that play?
01:24Clay Martin says the following.
01:27The back judge is the calling official, and there's a process on that.
01:30When the clock hits zero, he looks down to the ball,
01:32and if the ball is snapped as he looks down from the clock to the ball,
01:36we leave that alone.
01:37That's what he ruled on the play.
01:39Follow up.
01:40Is delay of game reviewable?
01:41No, sir.
01:42It's not.
01:43This is the exact same explanation you receive in every single one of these instances.
01:48I've talked to officials about this, and the way it's explained is not the way it's actually executed,
01:55because if you think about the back judge, it's the NFL.
01:58You've got, you know, it's football.
02:00You've got play clocks in either end zone.
02:02They make it sound like the back judge has to unlock a door, run around a corner,
02:10and then use binoculars to see whether the ball is, like, to move his eyes from the clock to the football.
02:19It just takes so much time that somehow the back judge's eyes are moving slowly down,
02:27and by the time he gets there, it's gone.
02:29And the way it's been explained to me, and any officials out there,
02:33please correct me if I'm saying this inaccurately, is that it's a little bit of a feel thing.
02:37Yeah.
02:37That they get a little bit of a leeway there, and that, I don't know.
02:40I mean, for the sake of our sanity, I would say as impartially as possible,
02:45I wish they would be more strict with it, because this is the way that it is called,
02:50and nobody's happy with it.
02:51Right, right, right.
02:52So the explanation for me, I think it holds up.
02:55It never holds up for me.
02:57It's fine.
02:58And yet, there's precedent for this.
03:00Yeah.
03:00It holds up in so much as this was not a great departure from how it's normally called.
03:05The back judge sees the play clock get to zero, takes his reading glasses out,
03:11and de-smudges them, and then puts his glasses on.
03:15And if the ball is gone by that point, then there's no penalty.
03:18De-smudges.
03:19On the same play, what led to the pass interference penalty on Kenny Moore?
03:26This, again, this is a question from somebody in the media for Clay Martin, the referee.
03:29It appeared there was no contact.
03:31Clay Martin says the following.
03:33The calling official had an arm grab at the top of the route.
03:35When you look back, the ball was in the air, and when you see the ball in the air,
03:39that makes it pass interference.
03:41I don't know.
03:41I'm satisfied.
03:42Sounds good to me.
03:43I mean, the previous touchdown the Colts scored, they were set up by Alec Pierce having an arm grab
03:51that he fell down on, on a ball that was clearly uncatchable.
03:54Yes.
03:55I think this was, whether you want to call it a make-up call or using the exact same standards,
04:00that's all valid and real, I think.
04:03Alec Pierce did a great job of selling that.
04:05He got the flag.
04:06Third and 19.
04:08Nico Collins did a great job of selling it, and he got the flag.
04:11And the tit-for-tat on that, I think, if you're a Colts fan, I'd say you can't discuss
04:17that interference without also acknowledging that Alec Pierce's interference, the call that
04:23he drew, was completely bogus as well.
04:24I know you're going to find this hard to believe.
04:25None of them who bring up that pass interference bring up the Alec Pierce pass interference.
04:29Yeah, it's odd.
04:30It's odd.
04:30Yeah, it's very strange.
04:31I thought it was a poorly officiated game in general.
04:33I did, too.
04:33I did, too.
04:34If we're being honest, it was a poorly officiated game.
04:36Early in the text, earned those penalties.
04:38Those were bona fide penalties on offense.
04:40Those were stupid penalties.
04:41They were stupid, yes.
04:43All right, last one.
04:45The extra point.
04:46The Texans would go on to score a touchdown on that drive.
04:49That was the Nico Collins end-around drive.
04:51Beautifully designed play.
04:53So then the ensuing extra point came to go up 20-13, and it did look like on TV that it
05:01missed wide left.
05:03Yeah, Ian Eagle said that he missed it at first.
05:05Yeah, that's right.
05:06That's right.
05:06The commentary.
05:06He's not one of these idiot play-by-play guys that gets it wrong all the time.
05:09No, no.
05:10And they were...
05:10Godless Joe Buck wouldn't have said anything until sometime this morning.
05:13There were Colts players.
05:17Tony Romo would still be asking Gene Steratore what the rule is.
05:20What the rules are.
05:21What is...
05:21Why do they call it an upright anyway?
05:23Yeah, yeah.
05:24I mean, there's one on the left.
05:26Couldn't they just call it a straight up?
05:28Why is the one on the left called an upright?
05:31It shouldn't be an up left.
05:33So even Colts players on the field were giving the, you know, no good sign down there.
05:38Even them?
05:39Even them.
05:39Well, I mean, I'm just saying, like, down on the field, like, in the moment, it looked
05:43like it wasn't good to everybody.
05:44He got the whole thing.
05:46The only people I'm guessing that that kick looked good to was the referee standing underneath
05:51that upright who's looking up at it.
05:53So the question that was asked to Clay Martin on the extra point on the touchdown on that
05:57drive, what led to the PAT being ruled good, it appeared on replay that it was wide.
06:02Clay Martin says, the calling official had the ball above the upright and completely inside
06:07the outside edge of the upright, so he ruled a successful try since the ball was above the
06:11upright, it's not reviewable.
06:13This one is, I would say, that I've learned my lesson time and time again.
06:17Camera angles matter a lot.
06:20And without one camera angle at a right angle in the end zone and one at a right angle on
06:26the end line up 30 feet in the air or so, I think it's just impossible to say.
06:33I would try real hard if I were a Colts fan to give them a pass on this, just because
06:38there's not a good review.
06:40It does, on Black Friday especially, when you can buy high-definition cameras for $29 on
06:45Amazon, it does surprise me whenever there's a situation that could be easily fixed just
06:50by having a stationary camera.
06:53You saw the pylons.
06:55I don't know if they added yet an extra pylon or a camera to the pylons.
06:59Yesterday was the first time I noticed that they look like air filters out there.
07:02Like, they got HEPA filter pylons there with all the extra cameras they have in all of
07:06them.
07:06Yeah, I didn't.
07:07Yeah.
07:08It surprises me that they don't have stationary cameras there that can give you the exact
07:13angle.
07:14Yeah, or even a camera that just, like, shoots straight up the upright there.
07:17Laser.
07:17I want laser beams on the upright's heads.
07:21Hey, was yesterday the first time that we've gotten this season?
07:24I haven't, admittedly, at the home games, I don't watch as closely on TV because we're
07:27in the building.
07:28I don't recall the Texans being involved in a chip inside the football situation like
07:34they were on that second Cade Stover tush push.
07:37Yeah, where they, they, it was obviously by the eyeball, like where, because they don't
07:42use the chip to spot the ball.
07:43They use it to see if it's a first down or not.
07:45Yeah.
07:45And I guess.
07:47Six inches.
07:48Yeah.
07:48It was in the preseason.
07:49Did the Texans have one in the preseason or did I just, I remember it was really way too
07:53long.
07:53Yeah.
07:54Yeah.
07:54I just don't remember.
07:55This was obviously a big, big play.
