ESPN Sugar Bowl game

[Dan Goncharoff]

No. The QB could throw it long and complete the pass. "Throw" does not
imply "catch".
DanG


On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> OK, the verb. But doesn't "throwing long" imply that the pass is
> incomplete? Would it not be "going long" if we don't yet know the
> outcome? Or am I just splitting hairs?
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> On 1/3/2012 10:55 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > "[The quarterback] throws long and… _incompletes_."
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