I know that according to the rules, what the receiver did is a penalty, but where he only stepped on the line and didn't necessarily go all the way out of bounds, I wouldn't think it would give any sort of advantage or throw the defender off at all. My question would then be, would you really want to call something which seems so ticky-tack? Does it cause that big of an impact to the play? Is it worth calling? I would think you could probably just do some preventative officiating and warn the player instead of flagging him. What do you guys think?
[Edited by Simbio on Oct 8th, 2003 at 10:40 AM]
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