bluecoconuts said:
No.
Like the Calvin Johnson TD, he's gotta finish the process. He had it, and he dropped it. The ball was punched out as the second foot was coming down, if he had another step then yes, I'd say a TD.
Maybe it was a catch, but why wasn't it reviewed? It's not like anything there was obvious. Evans had it, it was punched out ...
Again, the real question is would this call have been made against NE?
In Super Bowl 12 ('77), Cowboys against the Broncos, Golden Richards was credited with a TD catch in which he rolled on the ground and came up without the ball. It's one of those highlight reel plays I've seen a dozen times. The enduring image is of him standing over the ball he left on the ground. Long before review ever came up, or this narrow interpretation of the rule, but it still shows how wrong-headed the current rule is.
As soon as he caught that ball it should have been a TD. The defender knocking it out of his hands after is almost like a do-over. "Yeah. I meant to knock it out his hands all along."