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Message: <blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 761610" data-attributes="member: 7277">I agree with Amish that your rule disregards the time aspect of a catch in football and think you are underestimating how crucial that is.  By your definition, anytime you see a receiver initially catch a ball with his feet on the ground and have it come sprawling lose upon a big, clean hit from a defender, the play is a fumble.  Is that your intent?  Do you really see that as an improvement from the current ambiguity?You're not eliminating controversy, you're just changing what the controversy is about.  I guarantee within a week or two of this new rule, you'd see a play in which a receiver may or may not have made a catch, it touched his hands, just exactly at the same time that a big corner reached in and swatted the ball out of his grip.  Now the officials have spent several minutes reviewing the play and are trying to determine whether this was a catch and fumble or incomplete pass.The professional game happens way too fast to ignore the time and aftermath element that a catch requires.</blockquote>

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