Indiana lost the game, they had plenty of opportunities to win, and gave it away. But I think this call might have cost us the game, it seems aggressive to say that when it was only the second quarter, but seriously it gave Cincy 10 points(I still think that we wouldn't have thrown the football much if they had gotten the ball back with 4 minutes left in the half, ergo we wouldn't have thrown that pick) and all the momentum going into the second half, we'll never know, but calling a game up 2 touchdowns with momentum and calling a game up 4 w/o momentum is very different. NTM, we had only given up 1 first down with Micah in the game and we all know what happened as soon as he was gone, the heart and sole of our defense thrown out of the game on a bang-bang obviously non malicious play, I was so pissed off.
I would've understood if it was the call on the field, but they allegedly went back to review something else, and then discover that this is targeting, absolute bs, as someone watching from the stands, I was so confused, I was like, didn't they say they were reviewing an incomplete pass, how did arguably our best player end up getting ejected. As for the call itself, as I alluded to earlier, it was kind of a bang-bang play, it looks like he launched at some angles, but at others it just looks like one of the O-linemen blocked him with full force into Ridder.
Something needs to change with targeting, I would say 3/4 of the targeting calls I see now are not malicious at all, sure 15 yards, but the kid doesn't deserve to be ejected because he misread an angle or went in a step late. I feel like it's pretty obvious to see when a kid is either trying to hit dirty, or just has no regard for safety of the opponents when they are making a tackle, but it doesn't matter to replay review all targeting's are somehow the same, just ridiculous.