December 06, 2017 12:46AM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 300
Status: 3rd Stringer
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There is no "relative" position applicable to this except for the fixed markers on the field.
Here's one for you.
If Wilson HAD thrown it backwards, but the wind pushed it forward... it would be a forward pass because the vector of his initial throw is NOT RELEVANT.
It's where it left the hand of the thrower and where it hits the hand of the catcher in ABSOLUTE terms. NO factors like wind or forward momentum of the players are or can be factored in..
As others have mentioned, using fixed cameras, the ball drifted forward.
Yes, we can explain the forward drift using a greater momentum than the initial backward trajectory, but none of that matters.
if that same play had happened behind the LOS, then the catcher couldn't throw the ball because...he caught a forward pass.
Why is this so hard???
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