deacs1995
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You have to complete the catch at any point on the field, including the end zone. If the ball bobbled at all before the runner was down in bounds OR if the ball moves around through the act of completing the catch, then the ruling should be that it was incomplete. As far as I could tell the following order is what occurred:
Ball is caught
Elbow comes down inbounds around the same time as the ball begins to move around in his arms
His shoulder and rest of upper body land out of bounds after his elbow hit down on the side of the end zone.
Therefore by the rules, this should have been an incomplete catch.
Without watching the game but hearing about the play in question, do you mean it was an incomplete pass or a ccompleted catch?