These stupid players thinking they're down without getting touched.
These stupid officials for never recognizing it.
Then the dummy doesn't pick up the ball after knocking it out of Jeudy's hand after that's the reason he did it in the first place.
It's long been established though that if player gets up from the ground acting like he's been tackled the play is dead...by definition has given himself up. So refs did the right thing moving along as if he was tackled. I don't think they actually blew the play dead
I wouldn't say it's long been established. Now if he had taken a couple of steps, realized it, and started running, they would have let it go and Michaels would be yelling "ohh he was never touched!"
The referees should swallow the whistle and let everything play out.
they did though. I never heard the whistle. How long do they wait....5 seconds? 10? forever? If the WR gets up and intentionally leaves the ball on the ground while joggin back to the huddle, do you call a fumble?
the right answer is to wait a few seconds to call it dead, but not long. And pretty sure that's what they did.
Of course, we never got a good replay of it, there's a chance he WAS touched on his way to the ground