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[ace]

Here is what I dont understand.....

Can you enforce a penalty BASED on a replay?????? I didn't think you could.

And why can't you have an IG on a backwards passs? isn't IG IG?

[cmathews]

Originally Posted by ace

Here is what I dont understand.....

Can you enforce a penalty BASED on a replay?????? I didn't think you could.

And why can't you have an IG on a backwards passs? isn't IG IG?

I dont' work in a conference with IR so can't get too involved there. IG on a backwards pass is not illegal because......
A) is it not illegal to throw a backwards pass out of bounds unless it is to save time.
B) if it doesn't get out of bounds it is a live ball and anyone can recover and advance. So there is no advantage to throwing a backwards pass to save yardage, because if no one recovers it it is awarded to the team last in possesion at the dead ball spot.

[TXMike]

Originally Posted by ace

Here is what I dont understand.....

Can you enforce a penalty BASED on a replay?????? I didn't think you could.

And why can't you have an IG on a backwards passs? isn't IG IG?

Fouls can be called after an IR review has provided new "facts" to the R.

IG specifically applies to forward passes. You can have an illegal backward pass, i.e. when thrown deliberately OOB to conserve time, but that is not IG.

[BoBo]

I can understand the views on here that it was probably interference by the sideline but then why did the ref state the penalty on the play was for the sideline personel TOUCHING the ball!?!?!?

Where i think most of us agree that it was inconclusive whether the ball was touched or not.

[TXMike]

I thnk it would be fairer to say, SOME of you thnk it was inconclusive.