blindzebra
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This is really simple, I don't see why it is so hard to understand.
To complete a pass in 2014 you needed a) Control b) two feet down and c) time to do an act or actually doing an act, obviously. That is the catch process but only a) and b) are done as a receiver, c) makes you a runner.
Going to the ground in 2014 made no mention of upright long enough, in fact such verbiage, nor anything similar, is nowhere to be found in the rules until 2015. It says a receiver must maintain possession through the ground. So if part c) above occurs you are no longer a receiver, so Item 1 is no longer in play.
In the case book plays in question a football act occurs in all three. The act common to the game and the balance and lunge case plays are identical, and by maintaining balance and lunging the receiver became a runner completing part c). That is why the case play says a lunge is not part of the catch process, because as I said only parts a) and b) are as a receiver and the receiver became a runner because he met the time element. In the other case play the brace and lunge was an act performed, time was not a factor because the player performed an act common to the game, part c). Again it says the brace and lunge are not part of the catch process because they are performed as a runner.
There is a long list of examples in rules 8.1.3.c and 3.2.7 followed by etc. Simply put, anything the official judges as an act of a runner completes part c) of 8.1.3. The fact that the NFL used a lunge is more a case of lazy and poor rule writing than anything else, because there is absolutely no rule support making a lunge is something special. In fact, it isn't even in the list of acts.
The point of the case plays are that an act common to the game will end Item 1, regardless of what act is performed, before or after the going to the ground begins.
To complete a pass in 2014 you needed a) Control b) two feet down and c) time to do an act or actually doing an act, obviously. That is the catch process but only a) and b) are done as a receiver, c) makes you a runner.
Going to the ground in 2014 made no mention of upright long enough, in fact such verbiage, nor anything similar, is nowhere to be found in the rules until 2015. It says a receiver must maintain possession through the ground. So if part c) above occurs you are no longer a receiver, so Item 1 is no longer in play.
In the case book plays in question a football act occurs in all three. The act common to the game and the balance and lunge case plays are identical, and by maintaining balance and lunging the receiver became a runner completing part c). That is why the case play says a lunge is not part of the catch process, because as I said only parts a) and b) are as a receiver and the receiver became a runner because he met the time element. In the other case play the brace and lunge was an act performed, time was not a factor because the player performed an act common to the game, part c). Again it says the brace and lunge are not part of the catch process because they are performed as a runner.
There is a long list of examples in rules 8.1.3.c and 3.2.7 followed by etc. Simply put, anything the official judges as an act of a runner completes part c) of 8.1.3. The fact that the NFL used a lunge is more a case of lazy and poor rule writing than anything else, because there is absolutely no rule support making a lunge is something special. In fact, it isn't even in the list of acts.
The point of the case plays are that an act common to the game will end Item 1, regardless of what act is performed, before or after the going to the ground begins.
