I feel like I've been going crazy with some of the takes on this play. For those of you who don't know the play in question, see the clip below:
https://x.com/BaldyNFL/status/1878985879236305256
This seems like a fairly obvious incomplete forward pass to me and I've seen far too many people trying to come up with ridiculous reasons why this isn't exactly what it was. For all the complaints about the ambiguity in the NFL's catch rule, the definition of what is a forward pass is pretty black and white: Arm going forward with possession + ball going forward = forward pass. So am I going crazy or did the NFL very obviously get this one right and people complaining suddenly want to add a grey area to the rule because something like this "doesn't feel like a pass attempt"?
Ok I thought it was eventually called correctly. And it shouldn't have been intentional grounding as a receiver was in the area.