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That someone, WFAA's Joe Trahan, asked new Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy if Dez Bryant caught the ball in the Packers controversial Divisional round win over the Cowboys in 2015.
"I'll say this ... that was one hell of an athletic play. ... It was a great catch, I can say now. But it wasn't then, technically," McCarthy said.
In the fourth quarter of the 26-21 loss in Green Bay, Bryant appeared to make a spectacular 31-yard catch on fourth down to give Dallas the ball a yard away from the go-ahead touchdown in the final minutes.
Replays showed Bryant bobbled the ball as he rolled into the end zone, with part of it touching the field. After reviewing the play, officials overturned the call, saying Bryant didn't maintain control all the way to the ground.
The play led the NFL's competition committee to change the rule, which McCarthy alluded to Wednesday.
"I asked the question in regards to how the rule was written, and I was given the right answer by the referee, so I challenged it. If he wouldn't have answered the question the right way, Gene Steratore, then I would not have challenged it," McCarthy said. "I think it was a technical rule at the time and Stephen (Jones) has since got it changed on the competition committee."
