49ers vs. Packers inactives: Odum activated; Ferrell placed on IR first aired on NBC Sports Bay Area
SANTA CLARA: Clelin Ferrell, a defensive end, had his first season with the 49ers ended on Saturday when the team placed him on injured reserve.
Ferrell started all 17 regular-season games, but in the 49ers’ Week 18 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, he only played six snaps due to a knee injury.
He was declared ineligible to play in the 49ers’ NFC Divisional Round matchup against the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night earlier in the week. Ferrell was formerly expected to be ready if the 49ers continued their postseason run.
49ers vs. Packers inactives: Odum activated; Ferrell placed on IR first aired on NBC Sports Bay Area
SANTA CLARA: Clelin Ferrell, a defensive end, had his first season with the 49ers ended on Saturday when the team placed him on injured reserve.
Ferrell started all 17 regular-season games, but in the 49ers’ Week 18 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, he only played six snaps due to a knee injury.
He was declared ineligible to play in the 49ers’ NFC Divisional Round matchup against the Green Bay Packers on Saturday night earlier in the week. Ferrell was formerly expected to be ready if the 49ers continued their postseason run.
This season, Ferrell led the 49ers in tackles with 28 and 3.5 sacks. After spending four seasons with the Raiders, he inked a one-year, $2.5 million contract with the 49ers during the previous summer.
In 2019, Ferrell was selected with the fourth overall pick by the NFL.
Five years have passed already. Furthermore, the root cause remains unresolved.
The Saints hosted the Rams for the NFC Championship on January 20, 2019. With 1:49 remaining in the game, the score was tied at 20. On the L.A. 13, the Saints were up against third and 10.
Rams CB Nickell Robey-Coleman noticed he was well out of position just before the snap. With Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis running out of the backfield and wide open, he ran across the formation to get to him.
The ball came late, maybe late enough for Robey-Coleman to intercept it. Additionally, he got there early enough to hit Lewis before the ball got there.
Clearly, pass interference was the cause. That is, evident to all save the officials’ crew
Because it happened only eight months after the Supreme Court opened the floodgates for state-by-state authorized wagering, it didn’t produce the kind of national outcry something like that currently would. (On a local level, it caused a Super Bowl boycott and severely damaged TV ratings in and around New Orleans.)
In response to the blunder, the NFL instituted replay review for both pass interference calls and non-called. The execution was poor, but the idea was sound. Before the season even began, former NFL Media vice president of officiating Al Riveron caused a stir when he implied that an offensive pass interference call that wasn’t called would have automatically resulted in the loss of a non-controversial touchdown in a Chargers-Chiefs regular-season game.
Over the year, the standard evolved and changed. It was a complete disaster. The NFL gave up on the expansion to replay review after the 2019 season because it was already so poor. Furthermore, despite the league’s gradual acceptance of the booth umpire/sky judge concept, there is currently no formal tool available to correct a dreadfully incorrect non-call of pass interference.
If Riveron had r
The NFL still needs to work on developing that. a definite, unwavering dedication to doing things correctly. a method for carrying it out precisely and efficiently. The likelihood that it will occur again increases with the amount of time it takes to get there.
The cry will be MUCH louder than it was today, five years ago, if and when it does.
ecognized when to break the rules, everything might have been prevented. He ought to have told referee Bill Vinovich to drop the flag via the real-time communication stream. Who would have cared if Riveron had broken the rules to make the call correctly, even if it had turned out to be revealed? It would have been the correct call.
