You're the one that brought us the case plays as evidence, right? The only move listed in them that stops one from going to the ground is a lunge, correct? I mean, do you have any other examples in the case plays YOU presented that stops one from going to the ground other than a lunge? Let me present the caseplay you and percy wish to avoid like the plague because it shows how a receiver can execute an act common to the game like "switching the ball" to one hand like you all claim Dez did, and yet does not complete a catch for a player going to the ground:
A.R. 8.12 GOING TO THE GROUND—COMPLETE PASS
First-and-10-on B25. A1 throws a pass to A2 who controls the ball and gets one foot down before he is contacted
by B1. He goes to the ground as a result of the contact, gets his second foot down, and with the ball in his right
arm, he braces himself at the three-yard line with his left hand and simultaneously lunges forward toward the
goal line. When he lands in the end zone, the ball comes out.
Ruling: Touchdown Team A. Kickoff A35. The pass is complete. When the receiver hits the ground in the end
zone, it is the result of lunging forward after bracing himself at the three-yard line and is not part of the process of
the catch. Since the ball crossed the goal line, it is a touchdown. If the ball is short of the goal line, it is a catch,
and A2 is down by contact.
Remember, this is one of the case plays YOU presented to show that a receiver could complete the catch process while going to the ground. What is it here that bails the receiver out of being subject to going to the ground? He "switched the ball" to a single hand here just like you and others claim Dez did. Why did that not complete the catch, especially since it occurred before anything else the receiver did? Going to the ground takes precedence unless the receiver can do something to show he's
not going to the ground. This is why number of steps, or "extra" steps are irrelevant with going to the ground. If you're falling, you're falling unless you do something that shows you aren't. Waving your hand around doesn't do that. This is why you and percy try to cling to the other A.R. 15.95 as the one that was "most like the Dez play" because this one proves that the "switched hands" act you all claimed previously actually meant nothing when GTTG applies. Even in that other case play, what does the receiver do to make that play a catch? Well lookie, lookie. The exact same act of lunging. Again, A.R. 8.12 is in the 2014 casebook AND 2015 casebook so the rule didn't change. So repeating the same lie about "upright long enough" doesn't fly to people who know the rule. That's why after being pinned in the other thread y'all try to move the discussion here to pander to the emotional people who don't care to understand and will sign on to anything that says "we wuz robbed." I don't need emotional waves to boost my case. I know the rule and taught you about it in the link below.
This post here from the other thread summed up my correction of your errors on these case plays quite nicely and helped people who actually wanted to understand the rule become clearer on it. Remember?
