DOLPHINS: week 3

[ldouglas at gmail.com]

that was like late 80's tho

On 8/25/08, ldouglas at gmail.com <ldouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> I remember one of those IBM You Make The Call things where a guy in
> the endzone, jumped up and caught the ball, but was bobbling and the
> DB pushed him/carried him out to the three. And What I remember was
> that when he came down with possession was where the ball was spotted
> - IIRC - at the 3 yard line.
>
> On 8/25/08, Danny Nelson <cheesefrog at usa.net> wrote:
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> From: "J. Prescott" <spartacusii at kc.rr.com>
>>
>>> I dunno - I've never bought into this stupid notion of a 'football move'.
>> I
>>> mean - what IS that, anyway?  To me it is just a bunch of CRAP.
>>
>> The football move thing is truly a pet peeve of mine as well.  I don't
>> like
>> it
>> and probably never will.
>>
>>> For the other aspect of this, where there is contact from the defensive
>>> player - I think the original rule about if a player would have come down
>> in
>>> bounds without the contact was a good one.  I don't think the problem
>> is/was
>>> with the rule, but how refs were applying the rule.  Good ol' common
>>> sense
>>> will allow most people to be able to make that call 99% of the time.  Not
>>> all that much different than determining whether or not a ball was
>> catchable
>>> - just apply common sense.
>>
>> I think the problem with applying the rule is that it must be pretty
>> difficult
>> to, in real time, determine whether or not a guy would have been in bounds
>> had
>> he not been pushed.  I mean, sometimes when there is no defender it looks
>> like
>> a guy is going to be out of bounds and then he manages to somehow touch
>> down
>> in bounds.  And vice-versa.  So to me that is a huge supposition that ref
>> has
>> to make, with a fairly good margin for error.  Like the rule change or
>> not,
>> at
>> least they have taken away the subjectiveness out of the call, which
>> should
>> (theoretically anyway) make it more accurate.
>>
>> Didn't the rule used to be this way (push out = out) before?  That's the
>> way
>> I
>> remember it.
>>
>>
>>
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