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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 12:43pm
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During an attempted onside kick from its 40-yard line, the ball bounces into the air. As the ball is airborne, near R's 49 yard line, K2 jumps and controls the ball at R's 48 yard line. Prior to coming to the ground, K2 is pushed out of bounds where the recovery is completed. In the covering official's opinion, K2 would have landed inbounds.
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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 02:01pm
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Therefore, this is equivalent to K2 while airborne, controlling the ball at the R53. This is a legal recovery by K (greater than 10 yards from point of kick-off). The official's judgment that R's contact pushed K to land OB when K would have landed IB follows the same philosophy as a pass receiver being pushed OB. It is a legal and successful kick recovery, K-1D/10 @ R-48.
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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 04:29pm
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I think we better think about it a little more.
By definition (rule 2) an airborne player has completed a recovery when he first contacts the ground inbounds with the ball in his possession. This K player did not contact the gound inbounds. In the definition section for a Catch, very similar words exists but with the addition of the words or contacted by an opponent in such a way that he is prevented from returning to the ground inbounds ... . Makes me wonder if those words were ommitted from the recovery definition by design or oversite. I'm going with free kick OOB for now.
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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 06:30pm
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I agree with Theisey - flag for free kick OOB at the spot where it crosses the sideline.
If the kick is in flight, then 2-4-1 allows a catch when the player is pushed out by an opponent, 6-1-5 gives the ball to K at the spot of the catch.
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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 06:46pm
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It does not meet the defition of a catch cuz a catch involves "possession of a live ball which is in flight..." we have a grounded kick in this case. A recovery is "gaining possession of a live ball after it strikes the ground. An airborn player has completed a recovery when eh first contacts the ground inbounds with the ball in his possession."
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Sun Aug 07, 2005, 08:37pm
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Kick out of bounds. The ball was recovered not caught.
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Wed Aug 10, 2005, 04:20pm
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Wed Aug 10, 2005, 05:14pm
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 12:36am
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OK, so if he gets pushed out at the sideline, it's free kick OOB. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that K1 leaps into the air about 5 yards inbounds from the sideline. R1 catches K1 before he touches the ground and carries him out of bounds. Whaddyagot?
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 08:17am
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Caught and carried= Catch. He would've come down inbounds.
Now, back to the original situation, one thing that is important to keep in mind here is the direction the player is heading and the direction of the push. It the push changes the direction the player was heading, then you have a catch. If the push doesn't change direction, then you have no catch. 7.5.2L
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 08:18am
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Technically the recovery isn't complete until he touches the ground. However, I'm ruling that the ball is dead inbounds because forward progress has been stopped* - K's ball 1/10.
* So what if K may not advance on this play? 4-2-2a makes no reference to that - it kills the play any time forward progress has been stopped.
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 09:07am
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REPLY: However...4-2-2a refers to a "runner" which by definition is a player "in possession" of a live ball. "Possession" requires that he is handed the ball or he has "caught" or "recovered" it. "Recovery" requires that he first contact the ground inbounds. There is no 'exception' which allows you to rule a recovery because an opponent's contact stopped his forward progress like there is with a "catch." Therefore, he has not "recovered" the ball; he's not in "possession" of a live ball; he's not a "runner" and 4-2-2a can't apply. I believe that technically you still have a free kick OOB. I don't necessarily like it, but I think that would be the correct ruling.
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Thu Aug 11, 2005, 12:34pm
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