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Old Tue Nov 10, 2009, 10:26pm
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This play involves forward progress. If he's pushed back but that does not cause the receiver to be downed, forward progress does not apply. Just because a guy gets pushed back, if he gets free from the tackler, he doesn't get credit for the forward progress of the original hit.

Put the crack pipe on the table and step away.

When he touches the ground, the play is complete and we have a TD.
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Old Wed Nov 11, 2009, 09:00am
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Put the crack pipe on the table and step away.

When he touches the ground, the play is complete and we have a TD.
Amen. Just read the rules and case play cited, and don't overanalyze. That's the problem, is so many times we overanalyze something and we lose focus of what the rule/case play actually says.
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