Legal Pass or Not

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

You think the defense doesn't want a shot at recovery if it's muffed? This is a serious point of trade-off in coaching. This may result in the ball's barely getting off the passer's hands slightly into the air.

Are you suggesting, being just a tiny bit pregnant, really doesn't matter? The judgments of whether a pass, is a pass, and whether it's forward or not normally is, and God willing will remain, exclusively in the eye of the covering field official.

At some point we may yet be capable of applying satellite GPS precision to rendering such decisions, but there may not be anyone left watching to care.

[CT1]

Let me put it this way, Robert: I've NEVER had a defensive coach scream, holler, or otherwise lobby for a muff on such a play. N-E-V-E-R. If they're perfectly willing to accept "incomplete pass" as the result of the play, who are we to say otherwise?

We take enough flack during a game for decisions we make that have a material effect on the outcome without trying to pick this particular nit.