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Part of my point was the fact since I did lose sight of the ball due to it being surrounded by A&B players, what if the ball had become "loose" while the pile was moving forward?
2/7 ball on A's 40. A3 runs right and is hit at A's 43yd. Pile develops and sight of the ball is lost at A's 44yd but forward progress continues to A's 48yd. Pile then moves backwards to A's 45yd line.
My question is since I cannot visually locate the ball from A's 44 to A's 48 yard line, what if the ball popped loose on the other side of the pile without me seeing it? Certainly it's an IW if I whistle the play over at A's 48 yard line declaring A3's forward progress had stopped, even though I could not see the ball, correct?
Imagine the whistle sounding at A's 48 because of stopped forward progress and then notice B2 holding the ball up on A's 10?!?! Think a HC could "forgive" that one in a closely contested game?
BktBallRef is right, he says, "when I know the runner has the ball". But I didn't [i[know[/i].
WM
[Edited by WyMike on Sep 9th, 2005 at 03:16 PM]
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