How Do Nfl Overhead Cameras Work

The NFL is better when the Raiders are expert, and the NFL is great when a good Raiders team is embroiled in a quality controversy involving an NFL game.

Raiders fans are noted conspiracy theorists -- hello, Constrict Rule Game -- and the latest one is a doozy, because it involves a potentially game-tying pass from Derek Carr to Amari Cooper at the end of Thursday night'south 21-13 Kansas City win.

The laissez passer in question was wild, considering Cooper appeared to lose the ball completely despite him existence open up and the ball hanging in the sky. Many people believe information technology hit i of NBC's SkyCams.

Cooper said after the game he lost the brawl.

"That's why it looked like I might have stumbled," Cooper said, via Awful Announcing. "I was running in the right management and it kind of moved inside at the last minute and I didn't have time to get it."

Amari Cooper says he was unable to make the catch, when he was broad open, considering the ball changed management at the last second.
— Henry Wofford (@HenryWoffordCSN) Dec 9, 2016

If you watch the play in question it's really baroque because the ball does just suddenly move.

Looking at wearisome-motion replays it does look like something odd happened.

And at to the lowest degree one man close to the example -- David Carr of the NFL Network and blood brother of Derek -- believes in the conspiracy.

I watched that play about a dozen times last night and could not wrap my head around what happened., woke up to spiderwire, mystery solved https://t.co/w3PznNaqUx
— David Carr (@DCarr8) December ix, 2016

Withal, NBC Sports says that wasn't the case.

"The overhead camera is positioned behind the line of scrimmage, so the cables would non exist in play," NBC Sports spokesman Dan Masonson told Sports Video Group.

Additionally, Fred Gaudelli of NBC Sports (who produces "Thursday Night Football" and "Dominicus Dark Football") told Deadspin's Barry Petchscky that there's "no way" the ball hit the SkyCam.

"No manner, Barry -- the photographic camera is always behind the play and cables are really high over the surface. Look at the replay we showed from SkyCam - if anything hits the wire it would event a bump in the camera and you would meet that on the air," Gaudelli told Deadspin. "Also look at the replay after the commercial -- look how the ball comes off of Carr'south hand and his follow through -- non his normal commitment."

Plus, as pointed out at Awful Announcing, the circulate actually showed an bending from the SkyCam.

Watch the GIF of the brawl -- once again, from the SkyCam -- and how it very conspicuously moves in the air. It wouldn't be possible to hitting the SkyCam and move if the SkyCam didn't move too, right?

So here'southward the basic conclusion: The football did something very baroque in the air. There'southward no style to tell for certain that information technology didn't hit the SkyCam except that NBC would take footage of the camera moving and they certainly would've shown that during the game, not to mention alerting the NFL about the issue.

Afterwards all, if a football hits a wire, the down is over and the ball is dead. From the NFL rulebook:

"If a loose ball in play strikes a video lath, guide wire, heaven cam, or whatsoever other object, the ball will be dead immediately, and the down volition be replayed at the previous spot."

And then, in the immortal words of Officer Barbrady, motion along people, nothing to see hither.

Source: https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/did-derek-carrs-potentially-game-saving-pass-hit-a-skycam-nbc-says-no/

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