Mean Purple
Active Member
First, he wasn't 5 yards on the field. Unless there's another camera angle than the only one I've seen of it, it looks like he was in the white painted area and got run into causing him to tumble onto the field. Even then, he was very close to the sideline. This isn't a case of a rogue suit running out onto the field in the middle of a play.
My best guess is that he was standing on that end of the field to watch OT with the best vantage point. When the ball got picked JJ took off down the same sideline so the only way for Cohen to see the rest of the play was to step out onto the white and lean out to watch. Clearly Cohen didn't expect to be trucked by a linesman behind him and the linesman didn't expect to have an obstruction as he focused on watching for where JJ might step out of bounds. Boom. Collision.
No problem at all with that flag and very little problem with a great SID making an honest mistake. Now, I just hope Jerry Jones starts going down to the field more often again and this can happen to him.
Correct.