GENIUS Idea To Stop The Clock!

[George Cantstandya]

(01-05-2019, 08:51 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Ok but then there’s always the fumbling near the out-of-bounds line and making it look like an accident.

I don’t think I saw that mentioned.

That would be kind of risky as well.  If a player intentionally fumbles and the ball goes forward it is considered a forward pass. If that happened beyond the line of scrimmage it would be an illegal forward pass, penalty, and 10 second run off. If the ball went backwards perhaps the refs would consider it a backwards pass as listed above.  It would probably be one of those cases where if the ref couldn't see a decent reason for the player to fumble they would enforce the intentional fumble rule.  I suppose it would be a judgment call though. Of course there really isn't much to lose by taking a chance on a potential judgment call if time is going to run out anyway. I imagine if there was some loop hole we probably would have seen someone try it by now.