Dez Caught It: NFL Catch Rule Change Makes Bryant Playoff Play in 2014 a Catch

The NFL’s controversial catch rule — the one that essentially threw out common sense and used archaic principles in determining what was and wasn’t a catch — has officially been amended.

The NFL competition committee this week reached a unanimous agreement that the catch rule that has been under fire for years because of its unfavorable high-profile rulings, featuring a Dez Bryant catch in the 2014 playoffs that might’ve cost Dallas the game against the Green Bay Packers, will now be changing in favor of receivers.

Which means the Dez no-catch should now be ruled a catch.

“I think where we are unanimous are plays like the Dez Bryant play in Green Bay, going to the ground, [and] the Calvin Johnson play from a couple of years ago. I think all of us agree that those should be completions,” NFL competition committee member John Mara told ESPN on Tuesday.

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Unfortunately for Bryant, the amended catch rule doesn’t exactly help things in the here and now, four years removed from the awful ruling. And now that the rule has been changed, it comes at a time where his future with the Cowboys appears uncertain.

Bryant hasn’t recorded a 1,000-yard season since 2014, and his numbers have faded off since.

A final ruling on the new catch rule won’t be voted on until the spring owners meeting next month, but all indications are that this common sense amendment will make these atrociously bad calls extinct in the NFL’s future.

And in the mean time, we can all take solace in this obvious fact: Dez. Caught. It.