dkmightyhammer
Livin' la vida loca
What a strange way of looking at it. Still doesn't change the thought that it's a stupid rule that is totally unfair to the offense.
Almost every rule favors the offense. They don't need any more help.
What a strange way of looking at it. Still doesn't change the thought that it's a stupid rule that is totally unfair to the offense.
Almost every rule favors the offense. They don't need any more help.
If the league did it your way we would never had the Leon Lett fumble on Thanksgiving which is one of my favorite Turkey day plays ever, right up their with the butt fumble.
While I agree with your first part that doesn't mean we should keep a stupid rule. Why is a fumble at the one that goes out of bounds in the end zone treated differently than a fumble at the 40 that goes out of bounds at the 42? Given the spot on the field this rule is crippling to the offensive team.
It actually can, but not after you're down by contact because at that point the play is over. The ground causes incompletions as well.
Didn't see the play, but from what I gather the pylon caused the fumble? I thought that if the the player is able to touch the pylon with the ball it is a TD, regardless of what happens to the ball after that.
Probably because there is no possible way to give the ball back to the offense at the spot of the fumble. Doing so would result in a TD. The only way to give it back to the offense would be to pick a spot on the field arbitrarily and how is that fair to the defense? In the Rams fumble scenario the defense has no chance to recover the fumble so why should the offense (who fumbled) automatically be allowed to keep the ball, and even better, get it at the one yard line?
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.Not quite. The runner fumbled and the bouncing ball hit the pylon.
so, if a player is running with the ball, jumps over a defender and lands on the elbow of the arm carrying the ball and it comes loose without him being touched by a defender, is that a live ball?
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
Ah, that makes more sense. Thanks for clarifying.
It should just go back to the spot where he lost control, in this instance inches from the goal line, just as it would had he fumbled on the 40 and it went out of bounds. That's not arbitrary at all.
Yes! Where have you been?so, if a player is running with the ball, jumps over a defender and lands on the elbow of the arm carrying the ball and it comes loose without him being touched by a defender, is that a live ball?
No longer a rule as of 2013.Oh yeah, the tuck rule sucks too.. Everyone knows that.