Mess at the End of the Half

[ODJ]

Why did your LJ throw the flag? That implies he was watching the QB too. Who was watching his area?
LJ comes to the R with information before flag is dropped.

Spell check!

[cmathews]

Actually the Fed rules don't specify a legal forward pass, just that a pass has been thrown from in or behind the NZ, so you have offsetting fouls and should have a replay of the down..with the enforcements of the unsportsmanlikes, and did the player get ejected???

[Deep]

Originally Posted by cmathews

Actually the Fed rules don't specify a legal forward pass, just that a pass has been thrown from in or behind the NZ, so you have offsetting fouls and should have a replay of the down..with the enforcements of the unsportsmanlikes, and did the player get ejected???

No, actually if you go to the definition of a passer, I think he needs to have thrown a legal forward pass. (I'm working with an '07 book here, you'll need to check your '08.)

I'm nitpicking here in saying that the OP didn't technically have RTP. Because it sounds like a personal foul was justified anyways.

[ajmc]

Personally, I have a problem with any official, other than the Referee assessing an intentional grounding penalty. The wing officials can be helpful in assisting the Referee by advising that there was, was not a receiver in the area, a receiver may have cut one way and the pass went another, a receiver fell down, etc. but the key to judging intentional grounding is the intent of the passer as it relates to the circumstances surrounding his passing. Only th Referee is in a position to make that assessment.

Given the circumstances you were presented with, your enforcement sounds fine.

Had YOU considered the pass intentionally grounded, you may have given the defender a bit more leeay for his original contact with the passer, but "driving hime into the ground" certainly merits a flag regardless.