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"A player is considered to be going to the ground if he does not remain upright long enough to demonstrate that he is clearly a runner."
Huh. NFL must define "runner" differently from how they used to (player in possession of a live ball), or else this provision is circular.
All I know is, efforts to take the judgment out of things that are ultimately judgment calls -- possession is one example -- are futile. Just as there's no such thing as "safe", but only degrees of safety, there's no such thing as being in control of a ball, only degrees of control.
Well, I suppose they could have a ball that incorporated a pressure transducer and then adopt some arbitrary criterion about having the player's grip increase the ball's pressure by that amount for that long, and a remote recorder to measure those numbers. It would prevent the next Deflategate too.
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