#Browns Duke Johnson on fumble recovery: "Nobody ever touched the ball but me''

#Browns Joe Thomas concurred: "It hit the ground and bounced right back to Duke. (Will Compton) was cradling nothing.''

#Browns Joe Thomas on the ref's Duke Johnson non-recovery call: "Lie 'til you die at that point'

#Browns Duke Johnson's takeaway from the controversial non-recovery call: 'I'm mad at myself for fumbling'

#Browns Duke says 'nobody touched the ball but me & Joe Thomas says ref bought fake & then it's 'lie until you die'

#Browns Joe Thomas doesn't blame the ref for buying what he said was #Redskins' Will Compton "cradling air'' because JT fell for it too

@canton-dawg said:

You may be right.

@stinkhole said:

I'm going to guess Sasquatch, because you hear about him...but you sure as hell never see him.

The problem is, that doesn't invalidate the argument of "the refs completely missed the call". Fumbles are going to happen in football just like penalties, and it is on the refs to get it right. I went on a rant about this with the TP "taunting" call as well. Football is the type of sport where one missed call, one bad decision, etc can be the difference in winning or losing. The refs blowing a call is equally on the plane of how a team wins or loses

Zombo said:

Redskin never had it long enough to establish possession, Duke swooped it right out of there. Wrong call.

Zombo

Maybe. Its too bad there wasn't any way of telling how long the Redskin had possession.

I hope that female ref carries pepper spray in case she has to officiate any Steelers games.

@letsgojackets said:

She quite literally saw none of that, and either did you. Your visual comprehension skills are lacking.

Yes she did. She saw the redskins Compton recover it.

The correct call was made...Redskins ball.

See picture below.

Note the ref Sarah heading straight for the Redskin player Compton and Joe Thomas wrestling for a ball thats not there.

So why was Joe Thomas and Compton wrestling for a ball that wasnt there?

Because Thomas like Sarah the ref also saw the Redskin Compton recover it, but Thomas never saw Duke snatch it back. Nor did Compton know who snatched it back...he perhaps thought Thomas had it.

Nor did Sarah see Johnson snatch it back...that's so apparent because Johnson ran past her holding up the ball.

Nice try Johnson holding up the ball pretending like you recovered your own fumble.

@stinkhole said:

Redskin never had it long enough to establish possession, Duke swooped it right out of there. Wrong call.

Zombo

Also on the FB fumble where we were going to score, I heard duke was in concussion protocol and crow was gassed. We need to get a third RB. They should have called TO or let pryor run it or anything else lol.

Glad to see the kicker was nailing em tho.

@jbluhm86 said:

thank you sir....only person to make any sense on this thread...

@orion said:

She quite literally saw none of that, and either did you. Your visual comprehension skills are lacking.

They showed us a replay at the time and we could see that the ball came out and that a Skin recovered it.

It was our typical way of slowly but surely, losing a winnable game.

We also have ways of losing them suddenly.

We've got LOTS of ways to lose.

- Bob806, love your sig!

@jcam222 said:

This officiating bullshit every week is getting very suspicious. Here is my super conspiracy theory...... Roger and Jimmy have a secret plan to move the team. To do so requires completely alienating the fan base until they no longer care.

I think its as simple as we got our team back, and that's it. Don't expect any more from the NFL.

Browns are still the only team to run a play, then have a prior one reviewed. Still the only team to get penalized for removing a helmet.

Ratbird Steve Smith taunts after every play, our guy fets penalized for flipping a ball.

It never ends. The Browns are guilty of botching draft picks, firing too many people, and playing/coaching like crap for sure....but this team doesn't deserve this officiating crap.

@ghoolie said:

Again, make it easy on your cardiologist. Stop the video at 05. The put your pointer on the little time elapse ball and slowly scroll forward. The skins player clearly must have had the ball, because duke pulled at the guys right arm, you can see the guys arm get yanked out like a chicken wing. Duke was not on to of the ball and the ground, he was on top of the skins player.

This was an excellent call.