Referees: Int Grounding

[jjrye22]

Originally posted by Snake~eyes

Stupid? Sounds like a big overstatement on that. You would be the first person to allow their wings to call IG, maybe Canadian is just different. Also, if you're going to make a comment like that why don't you atleast give some backing behind it, to why it is stupid instead of hit and run.

You have to beable to see the action of the QB to call IG. What if he gets hit and the ball goes to a receiverless spot? The wings should not see this as they have a lot of other responsblilites to be watching.

That is something we try to talk over in pre-game, since different R's see it differently...

Our mechanics is that the LM has the forward progress spot on QB sacks, so, when the QB is scrambling, he is looking in the direction. He is also able to see where the pass goes, since with the pass he will turn upfield and cover the play.
The R is responsible for the saftey of the QB formost. When the ball is thrown, R must still spend (sometimes quite a bit of) time looking at the QB and area.

It seems to me that completely forbidding the LM from throwing this is... Well - close minded (not stupid). At the very least there should be a particular signal incorperated in the mechanics to indicate to the R that the ball was not thrown over the LOS (and no eligible reciever was around).

But some refs (we have different crews every week), I just sit on my knowledge and have no way to let him know there is a possible fould that he should consider...

Oh well - like I said, some refs do it different than others.

James