Former head of officiating Mike Pereira was another who said it was a bad call. Said the officials shouldn't have protected Cruz from his own stupidity. I tend to agree with that as the call could have easily gone the other way as we've seen before. I guess next time a guy slides down and then runs in for a TD, that should be negated because he "gives himself up".

Considering Cruz placed the ball on the ground and was heading back to the huddle, they made the right call. It was a judgement call.

If someone dropped a $100 bill on the ground and you saw it, would you give it back to them ethically, or would you keep it and claim "Fair game"?

The call was the ethical call to make.

Good job officials.

WTF are you talking about? The rules of a game have nothing to do with ethics.

The receiver stated in an interview that he thought he was touched. He did not "give himself up."

He incorrectly decided he was touched and went to return to the huddle.

The refs protected him from his own stupidity.

That's insane. You're either down by contact or not. He was clearly not down.

You know an easy fix to this BS? Just make a ball carrier down when their knee or elbow touches the ground, like in college.

Yeah, no thanks.

Why not?

Because if I want to watch college football, I'll watch college football.

This.

How does changing 1 rule make the NFL = College. How many College teams field a full roster of NFL players? 0.

Going down to avoid contact = College football.

Apparently they can do that in the NFL anyway according to this rule from the Giants game.

That's why the rule is BS. It's made up nonsense that only applies when they want it to.

Because no one already does that right? Unless you consider being touched by a finger contact.