I was listening to The Score on the radio. The Chicago sports-talkshow host, who is a bear fan, was talking about how blatant the hold on Sapp was and how ridiculous it was that it wasn’t called. He said Sapp would have easily sacked Grossman. (They didn’t say this, but perhaps Grossman would have fumbled.) He went on and on regarding how bad a call (non-call) this was. This is Chicago talking, not Oakland.
Now, having been enlightened as to how these calls balance out by bear fans, I decided to keep listening to the show, as I was sure he would then talk about the bad calls in the game that went against the bears. I listened and listened, but he never did. I don’t understand this.
This is the bottom line: The holding call to take away Westbrook’s game-clinching first down in the Eagle game, followed by the admitted blatant hold on the “winning TD” pass, and the blatant Garza hold on Sapp are all so flagrant and so obvious and so in-the-open-field-and-thus-visible, that you have to ask why. I firmly believe it is impossible to miss the Sapp hold without a reason. It was too obvious, too flagrant, right near the QB, and too long in duration for it not be called without a reason.