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Old Tue Sep 24, 2013, 06:53pm
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Originally Posted by BktBallRef View Post
If this was a screen pass and linemen were 5 yards downfield, would you have flagged them for ineligible downfield? I wouldn't have.

I think he catches it behind the 40, which qualifies as in or behind the NZ. The ball has to cross the 40, not his foot.
He doesn't catch the ball behind the forty. He touches it, bobbles it and catches the ball, controls it at the 41.
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