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Originally Posted by Ragnar
After finding a better angle, and watching it in slow motion, now I see it. But I can totally see how a ref might not call that at full speed. Unless you're totally sure, you don't want to gift a team new life. It's also possible the ref didn't see the DB grab his jersey. Because they usually call that. As seen at the end of the last SB.
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I hear you. But at least
two refs were looking right at it. I suppose it's possible the closer-to-the-camera-ref didn't see it. But
both of them? Maybe... We'll never know what would've happened had the call been made. IOW, would Cleveland had scored a TD or not? But it's not a reach to say the game was essentially decided by a blown non-call. Whether it was a case of the refs simply not seeing it, or seeing it and exercising very poor judgement, who knows?
I mean, Watson made some really good plays that night and also made some really dumb ones. The radio commentary guy (working with Kevin Harlan; I think it was Kurt Warner) pointed our very early in the game that many of today's mobile QB's have not learned the art of throwing the ball away. Not that Warner would have first hand knowledge of a
mobile QB 
but that's a pretty good point IMO, and Watson last night was Exhibit A... So neither a game-winning TD drive nor a couple of sacks-he-shouldn't-have-taken & a game-ending pick would've been surprising. That's just who he is.