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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 763989">As an aside, they need to address the defective aspects of the rule that relate to sideline and end line catches.  With those catches the receiver is not capable of establishing himself as runner since he's out of the field of play.I mentioned a while back a catch Thielen made in the second Vikes game.  It was a short out for a first down where Thielen got two feet down with control and immediately had the ball slapped out of his hands as he stepped out of bounds.  Had this happened in the field of play, the correct call would be an incompletion, yet nobody questioned it.  The rule is a muddle.I read a note recently that the NFL is reviewing the "going to the ground" element of the rule.   That's not the problem.   The problem is the "capable of establishing as a runner" element of the rule.</blockquote>

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