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Old Thu Oct 30, 2008, 07:45pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Here are the simple facts. The defense is allowed certain movements when defending. One of them however is not standing out of bounds.
The case play is clear on that.
Standing and moving are mutually exclusive states.
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No where in the case play does it say that the defender is called for a block because he was moving. No where does it say that he was moving.
Yes it does (say he was moving). How can the defender "stay in the path of A1" without moving?

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It simply says that the defender was not in LGP because he was out of bounds which is why he was called for a block.
Exactly...and the reason LGP was relevant to begin with was because the defender was doing something (moving) that, to be legal, requires LGP in the event of contact.
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