Your ignorance is astounding. The tuck rule is written in many paragraphs in the rule book. You just pulled a little clip out of wiki as though it was the real tuck rule. It's not.
Oh wow, you are embarrassing yourself so bad I need to number it....
1) That quote I gave earlier? That's straight out of the rule book. No, that's not just some wiki summary/interpretation. No. It's a direct quotation of the actual rule. Yet, you think it's an interpretation. Are you this thick-headed? You cannot even recognize it when it's cited? lol.
2) Oh, the Tuck Rule is written in
many paragraphs, you claim? Uh, no. It isn't! it's written in
NFL Rule 3, Section 22, Article 2, Note 2. That's what I just quoted. So, that quote I posted? It's the
actual rule. You're trying to act as though I posted, say, a summary of the rule. It isn't. That's the rule itself. Apparently you cannot grasp this.
3) That Wikipedia page's
source for the rule citation? Well, it came from the very article
you just tried to link. An article you clearly didn't read very well, if at all...if you did, you'd know this.
Here's the wiki citation. Look familiar?
^ a b c d Maske, Mark (October 15, 2005). "Tuck Rule Hard to Grasp". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
Here is Pereira on it and he says exactly what I wrote:
Under the rule, a quarterback's throwing motion begins when he raises the ball in his hand and begins to move his arm forward; that motion doesn't end until the quarterback tucks the ball back against his body, making him a runner. If the ball comes loose any time in between, it's an incomplete pass, not a fumble. Only if the quarterback reloads -- and raises the ball again to start a new throwing motion -- can he fumble, as long as the ball is knocked loose before his arm begins to move forward again.
Tuck Rule Hard to Grasp
Oh, god.
1) That quote you just gave? That's
not a quote from Pererria. It not even a "quotation" at all! It's just the author of the article trying to make a summary about the rule itself (a summary that has little to do with your "point" too). It's just his own little interpretation of it. A summary. Not a quote from Pereira.
2) But wait? Didn't you just try to bash me because you thought I posted a quote from Wikipedia that was just an
interpretation of the rule rather than the actual rule itself? Well, you're now attempting to do just that....and apparently you cannot even tell that it's not even a quote from Perierra, either (lol).
3) You wanna hear what Pereira actually has to say on the Tuck Rule? From the very article you just linked? Well here you go:
"The rule is very specific," Pereira said. "We have to make our decision based on the rule. Intent doesn't factor into the rule. Does the ball come out after [the quarterback's] arm is going forward and before he tucks the ball back into his body? If so, then it's an incomplete pass."
^^^
Ding, ding, ding. That was my entire point, in a nut shell. Forward arm movement. That's the key.
before you call out other people, you should do some research--and stop using wiki as the god of information.
There's a lot of ignorance on wiki. Don't be an ignoramus.
Oh, the irony.
Research?
From a guy who can't read his own link...or a quotation mark....cannot tell a direct rule from a
summary of it!
