New York Jets head coach Adam Gase got his first taste of what the new challenge rules surrounding pass interference are like on Thursday night when he challenged a play that rewarded him with a 33-yard gain in the Jets' first preseason game against the New York Giants.
Afterward, Gase explained his decision to throw the flag and hinted at how his decision-making process in that regard will go from here on out:
“It’s interesting. We just got to keep working through it,” Gase said in a postgame press conference, according to Josh Alper of Pro Football Talk. “I’m sure there will be mistakes made along the way where it's like should we have challenged that, should we have not of. You are trying to go off of the way that we’ve been explained over the years of of the whole DPI, OPI, so that seemed like the right time, and we all felt good about it and then we got the result that we wanted.”
The play in question occurred when Jets quarterback Davis Webb threw an incomplete pass to receiver Tim White, who was being covered by Giants cornerback Corey Ballentine.
However, Gase felt that Ballentine impeded White from making the catch, and replays showed that Ballentine was holding White's hand on the throw, which ultimately gave the Jets a first down.
A year ago, that play would have gone uncalled, as coaches were not able to challenge pass interference until a vote this offseason made it an available avenue.
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