azazel wrote:
Altra classifica interessante...le 10 chiamate più controverse...hanno messo la tuck rule alla 2?!
Non ho resisitito.
Brady dropped back to pass and dropped the ball after being hit by Woodson. Raiders linebacker Greg Biekert dove on the ball, and was initially credited with a recovered fumble.
In 1999, though,
a new rule had been introduced, which eventually became known as the tuck rule:
NFL Rule 3, Section 21, Article 2, Note 2. When [an offensive] player is holding the ball to pass it forward,
any intentional forward movement of his arm starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he is attempting to tuck it back toward his body. Also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body (ndr he becomes a runner) and then loses possession, it is a fumble.[4]
Citing this rule, referee Walt Coleman determined that the rule applied because
Brady's arm was moving forward before he decided not to release the ball and Brady had not subsequently "tucked" the ball into his body. Thus, the original call was overturned, and New England maintained possession despite Brady having both hands on the ball at the time of the sack.
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The furor over the Brady play in the AFC title game in 2002 led the NFL competition committee to consider changing the tuck rule, but it never happened.
But the problem that competition committee members have faced is trying to come up with a new rule that doesn't create more problems than it solves, and doesn't rely on having officials attempt to determine a quarterback's intent.
Mike Pereira said there might not be a way to craft a version of the rule that would be more palatable to coaches, players and fans. "To this point, we haven't been able to come up with one," he said. "A lot of very bright minds on the competition committee have discussed it. But you don't change a rule just to change a rule. You have to change it to a rule that you can officiate." Pereira said the rule comes up in games about 12 to 15 times per season and the application of it usually is clear-cut.
La paragono al mani nel calcio. La regola, nel calcio, dovrebbe dire: se tocchi la palla con le mani o le braccia, mentre queste sono staccate dal corpo è sempre fallo, se in area rigore. Questo toglierebbe all'arbitro l'impossibile onere di decidere se il mani è intenzionale o no. E' sempre mani, a meno che le braccia non siano attaccate ai fianchi.
La tuck rule toglie all'arbitro l'impossible onere di decidere che cosa passa nella mente del QB.