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Originally Posted by Reffing Rev.
Sorry, let me put in another situation when we commonly use the same logic.
A77 outside the free blocking zone begins his charge at B99, his charge is at B99's front of the torso below the neck above the waist. Because of a sudden movement either a spin or jump or duck the contact actually occurs in the back, or below the waste, or above the neck. What do you have? No flag because the initial charge was legal.
This is similar, the initial charge begins when the ball is in the zone, legal.
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I don't think the situations are comparable. B99 made a movement A77 wasn't anticipating. By contrast, a player of A is expected to know his own team's formation and play, and shouldn't be allowed to BBW on the basis of not knowing whether the ball's leaving the FBZ.
If you extended your logic, what about situations where a kick from scrimmage is expected, yet an opposing player hits the kicker because when that opposing player "began his charge", the kick, albeit expected, had not occurred yet?
Robert in the Bronx