Re: They let us down tonight. : Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:25 pm
Pieman wrote:
he was already running forward, and yes he run past the balls line thus making it backwards in relativity to the player passing the ball once received. Which is the rule.
The flight of the ball is judged relative to the passer, not to where the passer is when the catcher takes the ball.
Chase was not moving forward with the momentukm to legally have made the ball travel as it did, hence a forward pass.
What you describe would allow a player to "quarterback" a pass, as long as he ran forward enough before it was caught.