Sunday, January 11, 2015
NFL Recommended Guidelines Book
?So, go here (pdf). It's PDF page 51, or printed page 43. You are looking at Article 3(c). So, in order to prove that you maintain control of the ball, you should be able to pitch it to someone OR advance with it OR etc. So, that's quite an open-ended guideline. So, watch this play. He actually couldn't do any of those things listed in the guideline. It reminds me of the MLB rule that lasted in April of 2015 and died thereafter. That's the one where you could run with the caught ball and then five seconds later in the act of transfer, drop the ball, and therefore, would be ruled a non-catch. There's a reason that rule got changed as quickly as it did, and will become a footnote to history.
Anyway, back to today's game: he did in fact advance with it. He flew in the air with the ball in his hands, and it was secure enough for him for the ball to fly with him at the same speed as him and along the same vector. The ball and the receiver were, for all intents and purposes, one and the same.
The book may be called a rule book, but it's not written as a rule book. It's a set of loose guidelines, some more strict than others. This particular article is not that strict.
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