it's probably different for the situation in which you put your hand with the ball in it on the ground like peterson did as opposed to hitting the ground with your body and losing it. i mean it was obvious he fumbled it by his hand hitting the ground so i'm sure there's a rule that says that's ok to call a fumble because even the oregon replay official wouldn't have missed that his hand hit the ground with the ball in it. i liked the drive where we got it on the 45 and went backwards 20 yards. that's tough to do.
We've got two different opinions...But we are two fans with different eyes. I didn't see the ball moving before it hit the ground but I dont recall really looking at that. But about the rule stating the player is down. I've seen a QB go a play action and when to roll out. When he made his turn he slipped and went down the only thing that touched the ground was the hand the football was in. The play was called dead since the ball had touched ground. But we have different officials with different opinions on how to referee a game. What one person would call isn't going to be the same as the next.
Nice pass but you cant push off if you are a WR when the balls in the air. Texas if lucky there wasn't a PI call there.
Nice throw. "Sweed kind of shoves him a little bit.. you're not gonna call that." --ABC announcer kind of funny, since that is the same dude who said the offensive pass interference in the first half on OU was a good call.
So let me get this straight. The ball started behind the 12 yard line from the QB's hand.. it hit Peterson in front of the 12 yard line.. then landed behind the 12 yard line, so since it landed back there its a lateral? You'd think it would be determined by where the ball hits the player, not the ground.. cause the ball could theorectically bounce 5 yards backwards or something nutty.
acutally I think Peterson was standing on the 12 but the ball hit his hand which was out in front of the 12.
