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Tight end makes catch on last play, officials rule it was incomplete
By Patrick McManamon
Beacon Journal sportswriter
Published on Monday, Dec 03, 2007
GLENDALE, ARIZ.: The Browns were unanimous about the last play of Sunday's 27-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
Browns tight end Kellen Winslow should have been credited with a touchdown, they said.
''It was (a TD),'' Browns quarterback Derek Anderson said. ''But I don't want to talk about it.''
Then he talked about it.
''It was a force out,'' Anderson said. ''From what I saw, (Winslow) had one foot in and the guy pushed him out.''
''I thought he was clearly forced out,'' Browns linebacker Andra Davis said.
''It was a force out, I felt,'' Winslow said, but then added. ''It could have gone either way.''
The pass was ruled incomplete by side judge Joe Larrew, who was standing next to the play.
That became the Browns' biggest problem, because a force out is not a reviewable play, which meant referee Jerome Boger could not change the call because Winslow was forced out.
Replay could only determine if Winslow caught the ball and got both feet in bounds.
Winslow only got one down — because he was hit by safety Oliver Celestin.
Last season, the same kind of call went the Browns' way against the New York Jets, when tight end Chris Baker made a catch in the end zone only to be hit by Brodney Pool.
Officials ruled incomplete because Baker landed out of bounds, and a force out is not reviewable.
The Browns ran a good last play from the Cardinals' 37-yard line, lining up three receivers right and Winslow left.
Anderson threw to Winslow, who made a remarkable catch. As he fell, he was hit by Celestin, and it sure seemed like a force out could have been called.
Cardinals cornerback Antrel Rolle even used the words.
''Once he threw the ball, I really lost vision of it in the air,'' Rolle said. ''So I just played his hands. And once he jumped up and I saw where he was, I was able to force him out.
''He told me it was a catch. I told him it wasn't.''
Coach Ken Whisenhunt said the Cardinals ''just held our breath and crossed our fingers.'' It worked.
''They looked at it and they stayed with the call,'' Browns coach Romeo Crennel said, ''so that is the way it goes.''
If the Browns were unanimous about the call being wrong, they also were unanimous that they played poorly, with four turnovers and 10 penalties .
''Any time you let it come down to a final play when it doesn't have to, there is no room for error,'' Crennel said. ''We can't blame anybody but ourselves.''
Winslow agreed, saying he thinks the Browns have a better team but they did not do little things well. He also pointed out that the Cardinals now have defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Browns.
''It never should have come to having to throw a 'Hail Mary' that Kellen makes an amazing play on at the end of the game,'' Anderson said.
Patrick McManamon can be reached at pmcmanamon@thebeaconjournal.com.
GLENDALE, ARIZ.: The Browns were unanimous about the last play of Sunday's 27-21 loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
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