The Intentional Grounding Penalty that Wasn't
This play has stuck in my head as one of another BS calls. To be fair, the worst part of the play is the atrocious play of Dawkins completely missing, like not even seeing the LB blitzing right past his left shoulder. How is Singletary the one to get called out for his blocking on this when Lee Smith and Dawkins let both of their men run right past them? Like, wtf is Dawkins doing?
In any event, when the two edge rushers wrap Josh up, the ball is at the 39 ya
I think the OP is right about two things. First, the play should have been blown dead. Clearly. Three guys tackling him and he's still up, but the rules are the rules.
I hadn't watched it before, but he's right about Singletary. The oline almost always takes rushers from the inside out, and the running back has to deal with the edge rusher - the linebacker or the DB. SIngletary is on his way our to protect the edge when Knox and Dawkins just let the inside guys run free
