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Old Tue Dec 01, 2009, 12:28pm
Welpe Welpe is offline
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Originally Posted by bigjohn View Post
If there was no defender there do you think he would have caught this ball inbounds?

I do.
It doesn't matter in this case. The receiver's direction in this play is clearly towards the sideline. Since the defender's push is in the same direction, the casebook directs the officials to ignore the push and only focus on whether or not the receiver actually comes down in bounds.
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