Dt's Mules
Footballguy
Got to thinking about this tonight and figured the pool would surely have the answer for me.
Does the clock stop if the ball is fumbled out of bounds (in situations where if the ball carrier goes out of bounds would stop the clock). I do know that the clock doesn't always stop when a runner goes out of bounds so let's just assume it's a situation where the clock would normally stop.
If the answer to the above is yes, why wouldn't a team attempt this:
Situation: the clock winding down and the team with the ball is out of timeouts. Typically the middle of the field is wide open. How about running something over the middle and instead of the receiver trying frantically to get out of bounds, he simply chuncks it out of bounds (must be a lateral obviously). Let's say 5 yards backwards, just to be safe....but couldn't someone conceivably do this?
Now is there any kind of rule that a potential lateral option must be in the vicinity (like intentional grounding)?
Just curious.
Does the clock stop if the ball is fumbled out of bounds (in situations where if the ball carrier goes out of bounds would stop the clock). I do know that the clock doesn't always stop when a runner goes out of bounds so let's just assume it's a situation where the clock would normally stop.
If the answer to the above is yes, why wouldn't a team attempt this:
Situation: the clock winding down and the team with the ball is out of timeouts. Typically the middle of the field is wide open. How about running something over the middle and instead of the receiver trying frantically to get out of bounds, he simply chuncks it out of bounds (must be a lateral obviously). Let's say 5 yards backwards, just to be safe....but couldn't someone conceivably do this?
Now is there any kind of rule that a potential lateral option must be in the vicinity (like intentional grounding)?
Just curious.