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Kick situation
Here's the play: (FED rules please)
A) Scrimmage kick. R1 muffs the kick at his 40 yard line. Ball rolls toward his end zone. R1 then kicks the ball from the 25 yard line through his end zone. What you got? B) Same scenerio except it's during a free kick. |
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PSK - The basic spot is where the kick ends. Because the kick resulted in a touch back the basic spot is the 20 yard line. 1/2 the distance, 1st and 10 for R at their 10 yard line. Free kick - Loose ball play, previous spot enforcement. K may rekick from R's 45. Touchback in both cases if the penalty is declined. |
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Since R1 kicked the ball at the 25 yard line, would not the kick of the R1 be the force that caused the ball to enter his end zone. This would then cause a safety instead of a touchback. The issue seems to be the force that caused the ball to enter the endzone. Since the ball was at the 25 and had been muffed, is this not a new force. Comments please!!
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REPLY: waltjp is correct on both kicks: Result of the play is a TB in each scenario. K will undoubtedly accept the penalty on the scrimmage kick play. On the free kick, he might. Or if his kicker doesn't boom it that far, or if R has a Dante Hall type return guy, he might decline it and just give R the ball at the 20.
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A kick ends when someone gains possession.
Force is not a factor on kicks going into R's end zone. In other words, no matter what happens, the kick is ALWAYS the force. A kick is a kick is a kick until it is no longer a kick. |
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Yes but an illegal kick is the same as a fumble. I remember reading that in the rule book. I'm not disuputing anything else said, but could you construe the illegal kick is a fumble as a ending the kick, since you can't fumble without possession. Just curious your thoughts on that one.
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Last edited by kdf5; Sat Nov 17, 2007 at 09:17pm. |
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In the Rogers Redding book I purchased last year he distinguishes between an illegal kick and illegally kicking the ball. The kick here was legal (meaning the infraction occurred during a legal kick) but the kick by R was illegally kicking the ball.
If K had gone beyond the LOS and kicked the ball it would be an illegal kick and treated as a fumble. And, the same if R had caught the ball and kicked it (NCAA's definition of a return kick) it would be also treated as a fumble as that too is an illegal kick. |
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