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Originally Posted by ML99
Hmmm ... thanks for your comments - I thought that answering this question isn't easy because everyone has a different understanding for uncatchable. I also think that there is a difference for uncatchable if the player is overthrown (ball over his head) or if the ball is thrown sideways/lateral away from the player.
Would you call a pass uncatchable if the player really tries to get to the ball, but he is:
a) overthrown by 1yrd
b) overthrown by 2yrds
c) overthrown by 3yrds
d) overthrown by 4yrds
e) ball is thrown sidways away from the player 1yrd
f) ball is thrown sidways away from the player 2yrds
g) ball is thrown sidways away from the player 3yrds
h) ball is thrown sidways away from the player 4yrds
i) ball is thrown sidways away from the player 5yrds
I know - stupid question, but somewhere you have to draw a line in the sand ....
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Don't you think that instead of being based on a distance, it would be on a judgment of whether the player
could have gotten there absent the interference? That could be a variable distance depending on how much the player could've been knocked off line, and how far the player and the ball still had to move after the interference took place.
For instance, if the interferer just knocked away the potential receiver's hands as they were jumping straight up for the ball, it would just be a question of whether the ball was too high to reach. OTOH, if the interferer grabbed the potential receiver while a "bomb" throw was still rising, and it eventually came down a long way away from either of them, there's hardly any place on the field the offended player couldn't've gotten to in that time -- and I don't care if the offended player does give up on the ball in that case, he "earns" the penalty option without working for it.