10-06-2021, 07:35 PM
(10-06-2021, 11:55 AM)Papa John Wrote: My understanding is that defensive holding occurs before the ball is thrown. From all of the TV angles that I saw, the receiver and defender don't come into view until the ball is in the air. ...
Just as Humphreys and the defender (Wright) come into view at 3:40, it looks like the defender has his hands on Humphreys mid-section. Humphreys is trying to push the defender away. But the ball is already in the air at this point, so the holding penalty would have been committed before that. There's another angle at 3:53 that shows them jostling, but again, the ball is already in the air.
While technically correct on the whole ball-is-in-the-air thing, it is common that the refs call holding on excessive grabbing that takes place before actual attempts to catch the ball occur.
Your point is still valid. It would seem that the action that you see at the time stamp of the video you link is the end of the interaction that led to the penalty. Still they are appear on camera a little late to evaluate the validity of the call.