Fair Catch

[MJT]

Originally Posted by Middleman

Well, here's some food for thought ... the actual rule says "The captain may choose to free kick or snap ... on the yard line through the spot of the catch ..." If a psk foul is enforced following a fair catch, the ball will not be placed on the yard line through the spot of the catch.

Good point Middleman, and it says the options to FK after a FC or awarded FC remains if

• A dead ball foul occurs (did not happen)
• A foul or IW occurs during the down following the FC, and the down is replayed (this foul was on FC play, not the next down)

neither of these has occured, and with what you pointed out, I'd say the do not still have the opportunity to FK if a PSK foul occured.

I'll be interested to see what some of the others have to say.

[whitehat52]

MJT

I'll take 1 shot at this. The rule states that R may choose to snap or free kick from the yard line that the fair catch or awarded fair catch was made. If you are going to take away the option to free kick because the ball is no longer on the yard line of the fair catch, why aren't you also taking away the option to snap? You can't enforce 1 part of the statement but not enforce the 2nd part. If you take away both options we can't legally continue to put the ball in play. After the penalty R will still have the option to free kick if they choose to.

[mcrowder]

Originally Posted by whitehat52

MJT

I'll take 1 shot at this. The rule states that R may choose to snap or free kick from the yard line that the fair catch or awarded fair catch was made. If you are going to take away the option to free kick because the ball is no longer on the yard line of the fair catch, why aren't you also taking away the option to snap? You can't enforce 1 part of the statement but not enforce the 2nd part. If you take away both options we can't legally continue to put the ball in play. After the penalty R will still have the option to free kick if they choose to.

Ack ... you beat me to it!!! (I'll leave my other post anyway, but WH52 said it before I did.)