BillBrasky
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I don't think Elliot's run should've been a first down.
He got the ball to the first down marker, but it isn't the endzone...he voluntarily pulled it back. Mark should be where he pulled it back to -- its different if you're driven back and forward progress was stopped. Unless someone can explain it differently to me, I think the call was wrong.
It's the same as if a player crosses the first down line with the ball and backtracks and gets tackled.
I don't think Elliot's run should've been a first down.
He got the ball to the first down marker, but it isn't the endzone...he voluntarily pulled it back. Mark should be where he pulled it back to -- its different if you're driven back and forward progress was stopped. Unless someone can explain it differently to me, I think the call was wrong.
It's the same as if a player crosses the first down line with the ball and backtracks and gets tackled.
Right, which is why Beasley was short. Elliott should've been marked short too unless they ruled the defense knocked him back (which they didn't - it was his own doing).
That is the way it is in most sports. Soccer and hockey are the easiest examples. Once they cross the goal line in those sports, it doesn't matter what happens next. Same deal for football. That has never given me a moment of pause.
Now the first down rulings on that last drive were a bit more confusing.
(I was replying to the 8:58 post)
The endzone is literally the end of the zone.
dv7, do you have a problem the ball breaking the plane as the rule for a goal in soccer?