Benefit of the doubt

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Rich,

My first reaction to the play was, "Where is the wing? We need to talk."

I would agree that it is too big a play to make it a touchback if you are not sure. The ball was fumbled. It was not recovered by B. It went OOB. We aren't 100% sure that it went into the EZ. This leads me to say we will rule it OOB before it reached the pylon.

I did call the wing over and talk to him. He did not mention the fumble (not sure why), but said that the ball did NOT hit the pylon and the play was out of bounds short of the endzone. The problem is that I didn't know what question to ask -- I didn't know the runner fumbled the football.

It will be a pregame discussion for next week and I have a copy of the play in question to use when we gather to watch our game videos (we have 4 so far and have watched 2 of them).