Thread: loose ball OOB
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Old Sat Sep 15, 2012, 12:41pm
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Originally Posted by Bob M. View Post
All that matters is who caused the ball (supplied the force/impetus) to move from the field of play across the goal line.
I'm always cautious about how to phrase this point. It's not really about "who caused the ball to move across the GL," which is potentially misleading.

For example, A1 drops back to pass, B5 knocks the ball out of his hand and it goes into A's EZ and then OOB. B5 clearly "caused the ball to move across the GL," but by rule A's fumble is the force that put the ball in the EZ. So this play results in a safety, not a TB.

Even my earlier post might be misleading in this respect.
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