Super Bowl - Where's the holding penalty?

4 plays before this Harbaugh (Jim) was yelling at the refs for not throwing a flag for holding. Had a ref seen that penalty in the end zone the 49ers would have had 4 more super short yardage chances to score the game winning TD....The Super Bowl winning TD. I can see why he was upset, but that missed call wasn't overly blatant. This (much less important) one however was SO obvious that the non-call drove me crazy. Crazy enough to put forth the effort you see in this video. I'm starting to wonder if I'll ever end up using this channel for the purposes I had in mind when I started it.

[Proposition]

A penalty in the endzone results in a safety so if you are trying to get a safety on purpose you hold the shit out of the other team and use up more time! This was brilliant.

[cgvoxakis]

The penalty for holding in the endzone is a safety!

[yomiklaff]

You have no idea what you are talking about! Of course it's a holding penalty!!! The ravens were smart enough to understand that a holding penalty would still end up in a safety, with no yards taken off of the punt. Any real football fan would realize that!!! That was the smartest play of the year!!!

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[dmaginnisiv]

You think a couple seconds off the clock would mattered? That is all that would have changed. It is a safety both ways. Maybe an extra 4-5 seconds. BIG DEAL

[wesh]

Great play by the ravens... If they call the penalty its still a safety. If they don't then the play worked great. If they call a penalty the 49ers can't decline it and let them do it again.

Good job Ravens.

[mvp]

That was a hard fought victory from the ravens and the refs!

[chaselamb]

The reason whythey were not throwing a flag is because they were taking a safety so what would a flag do. A double safety?

[MrJamey]

This seems absurd: that the refs did not throw flags on what was clearly multiple penalties doesn't matter because technicalities denote it 'wouldn't have mattered anyway' given the specific circumstances is unprofessional in the extreme. The great referee Mike Carey once admonished his crew that the score should never dictate the professional integrity of the game. This was the same game which saw an official shoved heavily by a Raven with no call - that's one situation which the official could never miss! Yet the opening play was called as 'illegal formation on the 49ers'. Whatever, it will always be subjective.

[jiachen]

Thank you for backing me up! The 49ers were definitely not ready for the "obvious" play. The announcers even predicted it before the players got on the field. That is exactly what you can expect from Superbowl. I guarantee you if it was a regular season game, they would have punted and the same thing with the SB last year where the Pats allowed Bradshaw to get in the endzone where he almost just kneel

[solo]

The time on the clock wouldn't have changed. The result would've been exactly the same. The refs knew that so they didn't make the call. Sorry 49ers. You just got out-coached the whole game.

[joedynan]

You obviously don't know the rules of football. If there is a penalty with less than 10 seconds the clock is set back to 10 seconds. Before 2005 it was 25 seconds. Don't tell people they're wrong and then say something wrong right after.

[rileywagstaff]

And the supposed PI on the few plays before that was completely legal, the 9ers were at the 3 yd line so they can push and stuff for 5 yards and the flag is only thrown on a catchable ball, kaepernick threw a shit pass 5 feet to high for Crabtree

[nadiramahmud]

the refs didn't throw a flag bc the Ravens were taking an intentional safety and an offensive holding penalty in the endzone still results in a safety.. no time would be added to the clock and the free punt would still be from the 20-yard line... thus, a holding penalty there is irrelevant and the refs didn't throw the flags bc it would just waste everyone's time

[joedynan]

Since 2005 the NFL requires the play clock to be reset to 10 seconds if the game is stopped with less than 10 seconds remaining. Before this rule change, the play clock was reset to 25 seconds. This rule is meant to keep teams from facing a severe disadvantage when clock stoppage happens that is no fault of their own.

[jnowak]

The whole point missed here is that this play is COACHING ART at its finest, it is so obvious the Ravens players were told to intentionally hold on this play, they knew they were taking a STRATEGIC safety and by HOLDING EVERY OPPONENT only BENIFITED them even more by burning up the clock giving their punter MORE TIME to run around and BURN UP 8 VITAL THE MORE YOU HOLD THE BETTER, they were taking the safety anyway, if EVERYONE is being held they can't tackle the Coaching art at its finest on the Biggest stage in the Biggest moment, The Super Bowl, So great.

[jereth]

Exactly, that's exactly the reason why they were holding on purpose. They wanted to run the clock down as much as possible.

If the ref called for holding, it would still have been automatic Safety and the clock would not have reset, so it's a non-issue. The outcome would have been exactly the way it turned out.

[jereth]

By the rules, holding wouldn't have reset the clock, it would have ran down anyway. In fact, Baltimore's coach told them to hold and keep the punter safe for as long as possible.

[lasanele]

If was smart off John Harbaugh to tell his team to hold, because by rule if a flag come out after the snap the clock dose not stop until play is dead. So they had nothing to lose by holding. The niners would not get time back on the clock, they would just take yard's on the free kick. The problem was there was no flag when all 11 ravens players were holding. This is way a lot of people think the superbowl was fix. A no call on Jimmy Smith holding, and then the no holding on the punt...

[richardsherman]

XStarFX:  of course it would've been the same, but what you're forgetting...5-6 extra seconds were burnt because of that...Ted Ginn would've gotten the Kickoff past Midfield with time for at least one throw to the End Zone...

[you]

They were doing it to run out the clock. I would tell my team to purposely hold too in order to run off time. It's a smart play to kill what is left on the clock. It was in the end zone, and someone did point it out, it is an automatic safety.