Author Topic: "the original position of the ball at the snap"  (Read 25554 times)

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Offline Kalle

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Re: "the original position of the ball at the snap"
« Reply #25 on: August 09, 2013, 07:02:50 AM »
Is there any additional "clarification memo" that explicitly identifies a cutoff point (i.e. n yards beyond the LOS), where a BBW from the outside back in toward the original position of the ball at the snap would not be a foul?

If, as I understand it to be this year, the original position of the ball is a point, not a line, isn't it always illegal for the outside backs? I'd probably use a 45 degree angle, so anything closer than 45 degrees to the vector from the block to the spot of the snap is a foul.

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Re: "the original position of the ball at the snap"
« Reply #26 on: August 09, 2013, 07:13:18 AM »
That's the point....and he makes it clear in the video...don't flyspeck it, go with your gut.  You are never going to get a definitive answer

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Re: "the original position of the ball at the snap"
« Reply #27 on: August 09, 2013, 08:10:55 AM »
Is there any additional "clarification memo" that explicitly identifies a cutoff point (i.e. n yards beyond the LOS), where a BBW from the outside back in toward the original position of the ball at the snap would not be a foul?
http://www.refstripes.com/forum/index.php?topic=10175.0. See reply #10.
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Re: "the original position of the ball at the snap"
« Reply #28 on: August 09, 2013, 09:29:39 PM »
I'm about to declare this horse dead, and dead again.  There are going to be plays where 7 yards down field is a foul, and 6 1/2  will not be. The man standing somewhere is going to make that decession in about 1/2 a second. As long as he does it with the intent of the rule to protect the blockee, and not to declare some stripe on the field as a line of demarkation, ( and how many times have you been off a yard) we are doing our job. It's kinda like porn, you know it when you see it.