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Pay no attention to the right offensive tackle, who is so far past the line of scrimmage that he's interfering with concession sales. Also the WR who is blocking while the ball is in the air. If you ignore those two blatant, egregious rules violations this is a really solid play call and execution by Bama.
I was extremely pissed about this TD and these two fouls. I looked up the wording of the rule and in the NCAA there is a screen pass disclaimer. Since the pass did not cross the neutral zone, the lineman is not ineligible down field and the WR can maintain a block in the flats up to 3 yards past the line of scrimmage - both acts were legal only because the pass was behind the LOS.
However, our ineligible downfield was BS as he was only 3 yards past line of scrimmage.