ref44

Some additional history, his crew was previously suspended from an ACC championship game for unethical refereeing.

there is nothing that corroborates this

Easy to forget how bad the replacements were 10 years later

If this happens they'll quickly adopt the college rule that would make it intentional grounding

dpi isn't nullified in that scenario

If you're going down that path, then basically nothing ever affects the play. They run that route to make the defender bite, it worked and then the defender pulled him back because he got beat. A similar route that ended up as a touchdown earlier in the half IIRC. There really aren't many logical football arguments that say that didn't affect the play, you're just letting the defense off the hook for getting beat

I don’t think you should throw a flag on something that doesn’t effect the play. So that DPI in the browns-colts game, the holding in the rams-bengals and the chiefs-eagles Super Bowl, the OPI in the Vikings-9ers, etc.

doesn't help your argument when you name plays where it did affect the play.