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I think it is probably a fumble but we used to have a team in this area that ran a tight wing T. The quarterback would regularly pitch the ball forward to a running back behind the line of scrimmage. Some times he would pitch short and the pitch would short hop to the halfback. The coach would get upset every time that we correctly called the pitch a forward pass. I was thinking that this was a similar situation in that the drop for a punt is deliberate and is not simply dropping the ball inadvertently.
In the halfback situation you do not have the specter of intentional grounding because the back is in the area.
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