Announcers didn't seem to understand that the play at 3:47 was just an attempt to get a cheap first down on 2nd & 20. He kicked the ball too far. All he had to do was get it across the line of scrimmage. Had the ball gone only as far as the play was designed to do, there'd've been no penalty for no yards, and recovery would've been easy.
@@Rashman101 No, it's not a change of possession, but it interrupts the continuity of downs in a series. And I don't think the announcers thought, period.
@@Rashman101 Long ago it replaced a very old rule in both American and Canadian football that made it an apparent judgment call, requiring that the other team have "fair and equal chance" of playing the kicked ball, for it to reset the downs. It originated in American football when, or soon after, they started counting downs in 1882, and then was picked up by those Canadian unions that started counting downs around the turn of the next century. The major effect of this is that the defense can't allow a wide receiver too big a cushion, no matter how long yardage the down-and-distance is, lest they give up a cheap first down by this means.
At 2:33 I think you can see he got away with a forward pass. The wing official signaled onside, but unlike the way they rule these days in Rugby Union, it goes from point of origin of pass to where it's touched.
So totally implement CFL rules into the NFL effective immediately. Far more creative. Far more intriguing. There's way more running action in the CFL game than the NFL.
