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Originally Posted by MorseMoose
If a player catches a ball in the air and is then pushed out of bounds, it's not a catch. If he wasn't pushed out of bounds, he likely would have caught it just fine...
See...that thinking doesn't work.
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I don't really like that either though. Part of me feels like that's a good play by the defense, but that doesn't necessarily mean the offensive player didn't also make a good play. Good play should be rewarded IMO. This touchdown play is worse though. The defense had very little impact if any on the play.
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Doesn't lose control? So the ball doesn't hit the ground? Then yeah...completed pass. But for the Steelers player, the ball DOES hit the ground. If that same situation you have had had the ball hit the ground, depending on the bang-bang of this...yeah, incomplete.
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But by the sound of the rule, it doesn't sound to me like he's a runner (in the scenario I gave) and therefore it shouldn't be a completed pass either. This "runner" term is a key part of the rule as far as I can tell. Otherwise I think the James play should have been a completed pass. What I'm saying is at the point where
this video is paused at 22 seconds, I think it should be considered a completed pass. I understand it's not according to the rule, but I don't like it.
And FWIW, I probably dislike the Steelers more than any other team (I'm still smarting from that Seahawks-Steelers Superbowl) and I usually find myself rooting for the Patriots. Not here though.