what was said<\/a> to pool reporter Stephen Holder.<\/p>\nFirst, on the fourth-quarter play where the play clock clearly ran out before the ball was snapped, Martin was asked why a delay of game was not called.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe back judge is the calling official and there is a process on that,\u201d Martin said. \u201cWhen the clock hits zero, he looks down to the ball and if the ball is snapped as he looks down from the clock to the ball, we leave that alone. That\u2019s what he ruled on the play.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not an uncommon situation. The NFL play clock isn\u2019t like an NBA shot clock. There\u2019s no buzzer. The official has to see that the clock has hit zero, to check whether the ball has been snapped. It builds in a second or so of a buffer, which is (for the most part) consistently applied.<\/p>\n
Second, on that same play, Colts cornerback Kenny Moore was flagged for pass interference after Texans receiver Xavier Hutchinson seemed to fall down. <\/p>\n
Said Martin: \u201cThe calling official had an arm grab at the top of the route. When you look back, the ball was in the air, and when you see the ball in the air, that makes it pass interference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not actually. By rule, the contract must \u201crestrict the opponent\u2019s opportunity to make the catch.\u201d Any contact at the top of the route didn\u2019t seem to affect Hutchinson.<\/p>\n
Third, Martin was asked about the Texans\u2019 fourth-quarter extra point that seemed to be no good.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe calling official had the ball above the upright and completely inside the outside edge of the upright and so he ruled a successful try,\u201d Martin said. \u201cSince the ball was above the upright, it\u2019s not reviewable.\u201d<\/p>\n
So there it is. Another pool report that largely says nothing we didn\u2019t already know. Rarely if ever is the subject of a pool report going to admit that there was a mistake. It would be far better to have one person who meets with reporters on a weekly basis and answers any\/all questions about calls from the prior slate of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s Texans-Colts game included various controversial calls. Three of them were addressed by referee Clay Martin in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}