UK Retaining Possession after Foul Against Goodfellow
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It's roughing the punter, they tackled him. Nothing matters other than that. You can't hit the punter
Bc that isn’t the rule. It isn’t like a flag after an interception.
all roughing the kickers occur after the kick is gone. It’s an auto first down. If they got a piece of the ball then roughing the kicker is off the table. And if he holds it then he isn’t a kicker. So you can’t rough the kicker unless he gets the kick off and hasn’t landed and completed the kicking motion yet
He was apparently still in the tackle box which makes him still a protected kicker and therefore still must given all the insurances of following through with his kick. There was no attempted to block the kick which makes it a penalty. Least that’s how it sounded by the SEC rules guy. As long as he is in the tackle box then he cannot be tackled as if he is a ball carrier.
It doesn’t matter how far back the punter punts from. It literally could not have been closer to a block, so the foul occurred right as the punt occurred. Textbook roughing the punter no matter how far back vertically it was.
He's still a kicker in the tackle box and you cannot tackle the kicker. Had Goodfellow attempted to advance the ball as a runner, then he could've been tackled. But he kicked it and was a defenseless kicker. Hence the penalty and automatic 1st down for Kentucky.
He saved a coaches job ( I don’t think stoops but there would have been a fall guy if they lost this one).
I can't think of a more impactful heads up play than that. He had the instinct to chase it down and in one motion collect the ball and kick it. Even if he isn't tackled he still got 20-30 yards out of it which would have given the D a chance. Woulda needed a miracle to keep them out of the end zone from the 2. So sad he got hurt but that guy is now a legend.
Nope, because then in the event of a low snap of bobbled snap, you’d be allowed to freely break the kickers leg
If the snap hits the ground on the way to the punter, I always thought the punter was instantly considered "fair game". Is that correct?
What about an aussie style punter that runs out of the tackle box before kicking? Could he be "roughed"?
IDK.
It would have been if it was outside the pocket. It wasn't though.
It used to be called in the NFL a lot. That or "running into the kicker" which is a lesser penalty. I think it is much more lax than it used to be. What that guy did was the definition of roughing the kicker. Unfortunate for him as it was the natural play to make for sure.
Glad Goodfellow did what he did. I was thinking/hoping at first for him to kick it through endzone.
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