***Wk 6 GameDay Thread...Bengals @ Bills***

[reuben.ahmed]

(10-18-2015, 07:09 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: You're allowed to throw it away outside the tackle box, but you have to make the throw travel to, at least, the line of scrimmage.

That's just the way the rule is written.

Right, it just seems weird. Because in other cases (when you're in trhe pocket, escaping a sack), the ball has to be near a receiver. In the case he almost got sacked out of bounds 10 yards behind the LOS, he throws it to the LOS and a receiver is 20 yards away - lol.

It seems like the rule was created so you didn't get sacked for a loss, and then so you don't get injured. Sure, you can throw the ball away to avoid injury, but you should be penalized the same.