Guys - I have to admit I'm on the side of the esteemed Mr. DeNucci, Sr. (someday I'd like to hear from Mr. DeNucci, Jr.). For those of you who think that giving the ball back to team A is justified, why do you think the NBA abandoned their "force out" rule, and why NCAA and NF have never adopted it?
Answer: because it's wrong.
I'm not saying to call all contact a foul. Far from it. I am saying, however, that either the amount of contact was enough for a foul, or, if it wasn't, then it's an OOB call on team A and B gets the ball.
If you want to call it the other way, you have "half a foul and half a violation" which, I guess, cancel each other out. If that's how you want to call these, then lobby the NF to put in a rule similar to the force out, which would, believe me, cause nightmares.
Until then, it's either a foul or a violation. You can't have a "no call" when the ball goes OOB, which is what some of you are, in essence, promoting.
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