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I'm going to take a guess here based on what I've seen and what I've heard the commentators say over the past few weeks of NFL games.
To make a completed catch, you must have posession of the football. Nine times out of ten, posession only involves the reciever.
However, in a case where the reciever gets his hand(s) on the ball, and then the ball is knocked away by a defender, the "football move" is a guideline for calling a pass incomplete/calling it a catch followed by a fumble. If the reciever does not turn upfield or make some sort of football move to prove that he has posession, then it is assumed he did not have posession and the pass is ruled incomplete.
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