Pass/Fumble (1 Viewer)

[warpedone]

Instead of trying to determine if the ball is in a QB's hand and their hand is moving forward, wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just say: If the QB is behind the line of scrimmage and the ball goes forward when it leaves his hand, it's a pass. If not, it's a lateral/fumble.

 

[mad sweeney]

Instead of trying to determine if the ball is in a QB's hand and their hand is moving forward, wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just say: If the QB is behind the line of scrimmage and the ball goes forward when it leaves his hand, it's a pass. If not, it's a lateral/fumble.

No because sometimes the contact that knocks the ball out of the QB's hand makes the ball go forward when the QB's hand was not.

 

[SSOG]

Instead of trying to determine if the ball is in a QB's hand and their hand is moving forward, wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to just say: If the QB is behind the line of scrimmage and the ball goes forward when it leaves his hand, it's a pass. If not, it's a lateral/fumble.

No. The majority of QB fumbles are caused when a DE blindsides an unprepared QB with no warning. In that situation, the ball always flies forward. If that were the rule, QBs would never fumble.If they really wanted to fix the Tuck Rule, they'd keep calling it as it has been, but when a QB tucks the ball, penalize him for intentional grounding. I hate that a QB can throw a ball at his feet, and if the defender doesn't touch the ball it's grounding, but if the defender does, he's just tucking it.

 

[warpedone]

How about if a QB is making a passing motion?

 

[SSOG]

How about if a QB is making a passing motion?

That's just a more vaguely worded (and, therefore, more open to interpretation and far worse) version of the current rule.