Axioms that aren't quite right - Page 3

jimy2shooz · #31 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 17, 2004, 02:25am

Not to get picky about semantics,but your explanation to me is just a fumble. The runner lost possession due to the absence of having a hand under the ball!

Dommer1 · #32 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 17, 2004, 02:55am

Yes, but the contact with the ground CAUSED the fumble, did it not?

zebracz · #33 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 17, 2004, 04:44am

Guys, this was a GREAT thread...not only great, but awesome!! thanks

jjrye22 · #34 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 17, 2004, 05:29am

Quote:

'Don't throw a (meaning ANY) flag far away from the point of attack' - respectively
'Action away from the point of attack is unimportant'

Quote:

Originally posted by Dommer1
And James, at the higher levels, most things that happen away from the POA, ARE unimportant. Not everything of course, such as safety fouls, which should be called.

I believe you actually reinforced my point. I was just trying to list things that get said - that are not ALWAYS true, even though they can be (depending on the way the official says it) presented as always true.

There are important things that happen away from the point of attack, and a new official that hears that nothing important happens there will be looking at the point of attack, maybe even when his coverage zone is somewhere else (like behind).

Point was using a general rule for specifics can be misleading.

James

Dommer1 · #35 (**permalink**) Fri Sep 17, 2004, 08:25am

James,

Then we are 100% in agreement.