Thread: Backward pass
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Old Tue Sep 28, 2010, 07:32pm
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On those plays where a quarterback stands straight up and throws immediately to a WR who turns towards him...I know if it's definitely backwards you're supposed to punch back to show the white hat it was a backwards pass. On a forward pass you don't do anything. But what if the pass is straight sideways and parallel with the line of scrimmage? Is that considered a forward or backward pass?
stegenref, any pass that is not forward is considered backwards. So "straight sideways and parallel" is backwards.

When ruling on such a pass that's incomplete, if there's any doubt, it's forwards.
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