{"id":32663,"date":"2025-09-08T15:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/callahan-titans-admits-error-in-catch-rule-ayomanor-affected\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T19:26:26","slug":"callahan-titans-admits-error-in-catch-rule-ayomanor-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/callahan-titans-admits-error-in-catch-rule-ayomanor-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Callahan (Titans) Admits Error in Catch Rule: Ayomanor Affected"},"content":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Titans coach Brian Callahan admitted he made an incorrect decision by not challenging an official&#8217;s ruling that overturned a 23-yard reception by rookie receiver Elic Ayomanor in the 20-12 loss to the Broncos on Sunday.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My interpretation of the rule was incorrect. I own that. I didn&#8217;t do a good job in that moment and should have challenged it, and it probably would have resulted in an explosive play.<\/p><cite>Brian Callahan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0908%2Fr1542829_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El receptor de los Titans, Elic Ayomanor, logr\u00f3 mantener el codo dentro de los l\u00edmites en esta atrapada, que fue declarada incompleta el domingo. El entrenador de los Titans, Brian Callahan, explic\u00f3 que no desafi\u00f3 la decisi\u00f3n porque malinterpret\u00f3 la regla.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nAyomanor managed to keep his elbow in bounds when he fell after making the catch. Callahan did not challenge the play because he did not have a clear view of whether Ayomanor also got a foot down.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>An elbow does not equal two feet, so he would also have had to put his foot on the ground.<\/p><cite>Brian Callahan<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAccording to the rules, a player must make contact with the ground within the boundaries with both feet or any part of the body other than the hands. The decision should have been challenged.\n\nThere were others in his place, like Rob Riederer, the director of game management and strategic initiatives, who could have told him to challenge the play. Callahan did not say whether or not he received a directive from the game management department to challenge the play. Instead, he took full responsibility for the mistake.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I misspoke. I know the rule well, I understand how it works, and the way I articulated it later was incorrect. And I understand the rules of this game pretty well.<\/p><cite>Brian Callahan<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Titans coach Brian Callahan admitted he made an incorrect decision by not challenging an official&#8217;s ruling that overturned a 23-yard reception by rookie receiver Elic Ayomanor in the 20-12 loss to the Broncos on Sunday. My interpretation of the rule was incorrect. I own that. I didn&#8217;t do a good job in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[7502,1773,8457,299],"class_list":{"0":"post-32663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-brian-callahan","9":"tag-broncos","10":"tag-elic-ayomanor","11":"tag-titans"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}