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Kazzy in reply to Mike Schilling says:

I saw a number of questionable call but didn’t sense a broader pattern in favor of one team or another. The calls might have skewed one way, but I didn’t get a sense of explicit favoritism.

Regarding the Bowman play, it seems like it was the proper application of a piss poor rule. However, I haven’t seen the actual text of the rule in question. I understand the logic of not wanting to review fumble recoveries because of the difficulty in sorting through the scrum even via slow motion, but I’ve long wondered why the rules of down-by-contact seem to be thrown out the window during a recovery. While rarely as obvious as that play, you often seen a guy clearly possess the ball while down on the ground and contacted by an opposing player. But after the pileup, the ball ends up elsewhere and is awarded accordingly. The play ideally would have been ruled a fumble recovered by the 49ers and then reviewed to see if Bowman himself fumbled (which the review would have said was not a fumble). Thankfully, it didn’t factor into the final result (the full sequence benefited the 49ers in that they ended up with 1st down at the 7 instead of 1st down at the 1) but that was sheer luck.Report