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There is a beast in logic called a "false dilemma." Here's the general example:
It is either A or B. It is not A, therefore it must be B. To rephrase:
A player is either out of bounds or inbounds. He is not out of bounds, therefore he is inbounds.
However, there is a third possibility: in the air. A player in the air is simply that, he's in the air. At that moment he is neither inbounds nor out of bounds. Where he lands will determine which he is. (Consider a player leaving his feet inbounds, catching a pass, and landing out of bounds.) The NF could have written the rules so that a player's last status is also his current status if he is in the air: a player who leaves his feet while out of bounds is considered out of bounds until he touches inbounds, and vice versa. They chose not to do so.
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