Coach Stowers himself:
"Honestly, I've looked at it in slow motion, and the ball is coming out before his knee hit the ground," Stowers said in a phone interview Tuesday morning. "It's so close. It's a bang-bang situation."
By Tuesday afternoon, Stowers viewed the play on a large-screen projector in the Central coaches' office and reached another conclusion.
"That's not a fumble," said the seated Stowers as he looked up toward a visitor for his opinion. "Look at the knee."
Central assistant coach Eric Jackson told Stowers not to focus on Karam's left knee, which appeared to touch the ground after Karam's left foot slipped from under him, and only focus on the ball.
Stowers rewound the recording and viewed it in slow motion. Then he did it again. And again. And again. And again.
"That's a fumble," said Stowers, who then made a stab at diplomacy.
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Know I want to remind all of yall the Refs don't have slow motion to look at, it's all real time and like Stowers said it a bang- bang call. Stowers really don't know what the call is, is he down yes wait let me rewind it no he's not.
Know if the Refs could have had the option of a big screen and slow motion maybe they would have got the call right are maybe not. Lets not judge the Refs that had to make that call in a spilt second.
Lets just let those Jags know how PROUD of them we all are.