Just to be clear, I'm not discussing any actual situation I've seen or heard about. This is just a hypothetical for purposes of rule discussion.
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Originally Posted by JRutledge
I think you are over thinking this. I have yet to see a situation where a defender launches someone forward while a ball carrier is truly going down.
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I haven't seen this either. Just a hypothetical that got me wondering.
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This is why you get paid the big bucks to decide when or if forward progress has been stopped.
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But that's the point. Forward progress
hasn't been stopped if A is driving B back into the field of play. Indeed, A is driving B forward.
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But if a player is trying to go down or cannot until his forward progress is stopped outside the end zone, he needs to learn how to do that better.
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Fair enough. There's no rule prohibiting an opponent from driving the ball carrier forward. And normally that would be desirable.
Or perhaps a similar case. With less than a minute remaining in the game, A is trying to go down in bounds. B lifts/drives A forward and out of bounds.