01-11-2011, 11:54 AM
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Re: Mike Pereira: Time to change the tuck rule
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Originally Posted by BradyManny
I don't have any intrinsic problem with the rule - obviously it benefited us greatly.
But it's not an arbitrary rule - the spirit of the rule, like many in the league, is to benefit the offense by not penalizing the QB for what happens with the ball in the precarious time between a forward pass motion and the securing of the ball.
The end result is a rule that states that once the throwing motion has started, it is not complete until the ball is released or in the case it is not released, the ball is no longer moving forward. It's really not as crazy as people make it out to be. It's obvious the rule hugely favors the offense, but every team has to play by this rule.
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FWIW, while it naturally has that outcome, the stated rationale for the rule is a fundamentally valid one: to prevent referees from being forced to divine intent (was he going to tuck the ball or was he going to pass it?).
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