Talk:Swinging gate (American football)

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Rule Technicalities?
I believe that the swinging gate is rare in the NFL is rare because it's illegal in the NFL. Also, the diagrams are wrong. The inside tight end cannot be eligible because he is "covered up" by the center. Furthermore, I believe that the center is eligible in both, not just the one where he is highlighted.--49giantsharks 20:50, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Well the Titans did a version of it in the wildcard game, so it's obviously legal in some form Cryomaniac (talk) 13:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I think, at some point, the errors he is talking about were corrected. Although, if we want to get technical, there are ALWAYS six eligible receivers on offense in American football. There must be exactly seven men on the line, and five of them are ineligible. There are eleven men on the field, leaving six eligible receivers. Remember that a lot of trick plays use that as their basis: The QB is an eligible receiver. -128.227.140.35 (talk) 19:25, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, you can have less eligible receivers. The most likely cause is having a WR cover a TE on the same side of the line. There is no penalty for having more than seven on the line, but it causes you to lose receivers. Farside268 (talk) 02:33, 31 October 2015 (UTC)