You wanted Desean: devestating speed, toughness that belies his size

I wanted Bennett: Superior route runner, catches everything

We got Eddie Royal: All of the above. Wish I had seen more VT film, I might have picked him out of the crowd.

bushwah and styg, don’t forget Royal’s character. As Danver pointed out last week, in his post-ame interview last Monday night Royal showed what a classy guy he is. He took no personal glory. He gave all the credit to his team. But you are both right in my opinion.

usually it’s the hot rod DB who lets up on an INT return, but this takes the cake.

is a HUGE Eagles fan, and he admits he’d rather have Royal.

I’ve been meaning to comment in your post, but I’ve been distracted at work so far this morning…

But essentially, this was the exact same rule issue just with slightly different game circumstances so thus no big hoopla is being made about it. The ref’s goofed on this one too: they blew the whistle too early, thus allowed the Eagles to maintain the ball at the 1 after reviewing it. If they hadn’t blown the whistle, there were 2 Cowboys right there to scoop up the fumble and more than likely return it at least 20-30 yards back upfield.

The circumstances were different though:

• It occurred in the first half
• Cowboys ended up still winning the game

But I still fiind it interesting and a bit ironic that neither Cowboys, the fans, nor the “announcers” made a big deal out of it, while we see alot of ppl making a big stink about our blown call. Again, this can be mostly attributed to the difference in game circumstances…

Anyways, after reading much of the rationale here at MHR, particularly HT’s, reflecting on it some more on my own, and then seeing the Jackson fumble, I feel much less … er “guilty” (?)… about our particular game’s “controversy.”

Unless you really ascribe to a conspiracy theory, this issue is a league’s rule; simple as that. It’s not Hocculi’s (aside from him beinng human) and not the Broncos issue. Human error is a part of the game; sometimes it helps teams, sometimes it hurts teams; it’s up to the league to try to minimize the amount of human error, but there will never be a way to completely eliminate it altogether.

I know it still stings for some of the more emotional Chargers fans, but the other more rational-thinking ones such as DaBolts realize this and have moved on.