Art mimics life, in a way that will cause all football fans to shudder in the best case, and are enraged in the worst. (In the scrum after hunting, Chad also ends up taking a child sick from his wheelchair, but that is a different story). Leaving the ball below the final area, literally staggering six guaranteed points, it is undoubtedly the most silly and preventable self -inflicted error than an NFL player can commit.
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But alone. Guard. Event.
Last week, Adonai Mitchell of Indianapolis turned what should have been a spectacular reception of 75 yards touchdown in a crazy clown show when extending the ball too soon:
The colts would pass to the Rams for a touchdown. No more comments are needed.
Then, on Sunday, the EMARI DeMercado de Arizona, the annotation zone just centimeters away, decided to discard football as a cup of empty coffee … before crossing the goal line:
Arizona led 21-6 before Demercado crossed the goal line … and lost 22-21. Again, no more comments are needed.
The rule that converts a loose ball in the score zone into a touchback causes many criticism when it reaches the end of a long and sustained offensive impulse. Some even call it because of the way the offense penalizes so much. But when the touchback rule comes into play because a ball bearer carefully falls out of the ball, well … a touchback does not seem severe enough grief.
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The routine with these crazy drops is always the same: a player drops the ball while crossing the goal line. Everyone who looks, having seen thousands of TouchDowns, immediately realize that something is wrong, in the same way you can listen to an off -key note in a family song. And then comes the review, and the broadcasters shrink in the air, and they all wonder the same thing: Why is this still happening?
There is no excuse, there is no rationalization, there is no way to turn this: dropping the ball before reaching the score is simply the darker movement that a soccer player can do. Is the last expression of I before the teamA little celebration, or performative chance, whatever, which literally costs your team, tangible, measurable and measurable points, should be the points of the billboard.
Although the players have been dropping football before the annotation zone, sometimes for the celebration, sometimes for incompetence, probably since the game began, the zero patient for the drops is probably the desire Jackson of the Eagles, who did it in a game against the cowboys in 2008:
(The curious thing, and you have to laugh to avoid that the furniture is not broken, on the informal moment of Jackson is that he did it, in the army bowl).
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This is not to call the celebrations. TouchDown celebrations in the NFL rule! Writing a TouchDown in the NFL is a hard work and deserves to be celebrated! Demons, bring Broadway choreography, a complete brass band, whatever. But celebrate after You write the TouchDown, not before.
Coaches must teach players at all levels to take the ball to the score zone. Touch the ball on the posterior wall. Touch the goal post. Take the ball to the equipment plane. Whatever, you just don’t drop it before you are in the final area … or you may not visit that final area.
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