Look very closely at the replay, golden tate's left arm comes in underneath the packer's defenders arms, between the ball and the defender's chest. Technically this would be considered simultaneous posession; tate had his hands around the ball in such a manner that if the defender didn't also have his hands on it..tate would've come down with the catch anyway. People/the sports media just love to QQ whenever something like this happens to the packers/patriots, or america's sweetheart teams. Seriously this SAME exact thing happened to the jets last year cromartie caught a pick but the receiver came down with his hands on the ball as well...same ruling, offensive player got the catch.
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