Rule Clarification???

[KillerGoose]

(01-17-2022, 05:12 PM)SHRacerX Wrote: Dak Prescott's ill-fated QB keeper that killed time is all the discussion today.

I was wondering about this:

What if Prescott, instead of going down, fired the ball to the sideline (though SLIGHTLY backwards) and it went out of bounds.  That would be a fumble, but he would get the yardage at the place the ball went out of bounds, right?

Wouldn't the clock also stop?  

If that is true, that might be a legitimate play in the future?

There is a rule preventing this exact scenario from occurring. 

NFL Rules 4.7.1 ILLEGAL ACTS

Quote:A team is not permitted to conserve time after the two-minute warning of either half by
committing any of these acts:[...]
(d) throwing a backward pass out of bounds;