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If you crash, you can usually tell by how the player is laying whether he has advanced the ball. If the ball is still tucked away and is a foot beyond the endzone, you got a TD. If you never saw the kid stretch the ball in front of him on his feet and when you crash you find him with the ball stretched just barely breaking the plane, it's probably short.
As for pinching in before the play, what do you do if the play doesn't go up the middle? What if it comes to your sideline? What if you have a pylon play? Do you want to be officiating while backing up? Worse yet, do you want to have the play go behind you? The NFL mechanic is a good mechanic - start wide and crash once you KNOW the ball went up the middle.
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