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Carlos Hyde OT Fumble

By bsodders -21 October 2012
17 Comments
- Football

I haven't seen this discussed here yet....but did anybody else notice that Carlos lost the ball when he leaped into the endzone and fortunately was able to fall directly on it to secure the touchdown? That would have been disastrous if that ball would have went in any other direction. Just kind of find it odd that nobody else seemed to even notice or mention the fact that he lost the ball.

cjmgobucks on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:24am #

Just the football gods throwing us a bone after the refs awarded the football to Purdue after taking the ball away from Braxton when he was clearly down in the 1st quarter...

cjmgobucks on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:25am #

...and not even bothering to review the call on the field. Good God, they reviewed just about every other call on the field!!

jrich612 on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:26am #

Even if it were reviewed I think we would have seen that the ball didnt come out until after he broke the plane. Although, with the officials we had on replay yesterday, I'm glad it didn't have to come to that.

Urban John Simo... on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:27am #

I didn't notice a drop, but if so, did he have the ball when he crossed the plane? That's all he needs- once it crosses the goal line it's a dead ball.

cjmgobucks on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:28am #

Let me clarify my prior comment...I was referring to the refs not reviewing Braxton's "fumble." Not Carlos Hyde's TD...

BuckGnome on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:37am #

The ball definately came out. At least one of the officials saw it, as the beanbag was tossed near the pile. I'm not sure Hyde broke the plane of the goal line with the ball before fumbling, but it was a moot point as he immediatly landed on the ball in the endzone and clearly secured it.

BuckinBama on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:37am #

I did see that he lost the ball, but he had it as he crossed the goalline. He didn't lose the rock until he was coming back down. What's the point of talking about, or bringing it up though? We won, no need to harp on all the negatives.

CALPOPPY on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:38am #

I noticed that watching highlights this morning. But I think he recovered anyway.

razrback16 on 21 Oct 2012 - 12:09pm #

It's irrelevent. He did fumble the ball but it was after he crossed the plain so it didn't matter.

Buckeyes125 on 21 Oct 2012 - 12:20pm #

All the ball has to do is cross the goal line....

SweetBabyJames on 21 Oct 2012 - 12:22pm #

you can clearly see hyde go up and hit the teammate and then you can see the ball on the turf in the end zone at everyones feet...(at this point Carlos is still in the air)

the ball bounced back to right were carlos lands, he recovers it....ala corey brown last week....

we definetly have been getting some good bounces...

i thought it is an interesting topic...it should make people feel good, instead of saying.."ohh it doesnt matter" because if purdue would have recovered that it would have been a close review

BuckeyeTilIdie on 21 Oct 2012 - 12:58pm #

I saw it from C deck.. lol I was excited he scored... but I said about 123456789 thousand curse words after!!!

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Bolt on 21 Oct 2012 - 2:10pm #

I noticed it but it looked like he luckily landed directly on top of it to avoid any kind of controversy. What I want to know is why Hyde decides to go airborn every time he's at the goal line. I would rather see him get low and push using his big powerful legs. He's gone airborn a couple times when it was completely unnecessary to do so. He literally could've just shuffled in to the left of his block on this play without much opposition. Even if someone did step in to fill that hole the defender would have met a 235 pound RB with a head of steam right at the goal line. Hyde's going to win that. He could've just shuffled left into the endzone or pushed his way in...rather he tried to jump over the blocker and defender and nearly lost the ball.

Buckeyevstheworld on 21 Oct 2012 - 2:27pm #

Wasn't sure if he crossed the endzone before it popped out. Since he recovered, it wasn't an issue.

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bsodders on 21 Oct 2012 - 5:25pm #

Wasn't meant to be negative or harp on it....just didn't know if others saw the saem thing I did. It didn't look like he broke the plane prior to fumbling. I agree about Hyde going airborn. He does it when he doesn't need to sometimes...he's a big boy and should drive right through.

Urban John Simo... on 21 Oct 2012 - 5:33pm #

@ Bolt- The reason you go airborn is to avoid the bad call that Stanford had last week against Notre Dame. No chance to mess it up when you're soaring over the pile.