NFL catch rule: new verbiage

[Dcat]

ARTICLE 3. COMPLETED OR INTERCEPTED PASS. A player who makes a catch may advance the ball. A forward pass is complete (by the offense) or intercepted (by the defense) if a player, who is inbounds:

(a) secures control of the ball in his hands or arms prior to the ball touching the ground; and

(b) touches the ground inbounds with both feet or with any part of his body other than his hands; and

(c) maintains control of the ball after (a) and (b) have been fulfilled, until he has the ball long enough to clearly become a runner. A player has the ball long enough to become a runner when, after his second foot is on the ground, he is capable of avoiding or warding off impending contact of an opponent, tucking the ball away, turning up field, or taking additional steps (see 3-2-7-Item 2).

Note: If a player has control of the ball, a slight movement of the ball will not be considered a loss of possession. He must lose control of the ball in order to rule that there has been a loss of possession.

If the player loses the ball while simultaneously touching both feet or any part of his body to the ground, it is not a catch.

* Bolded text is new verbiage added to 2016 NFL rulebook.

[EM31]

So would this new definition have allowed the Dez Bryant catch or not?

[Dcat]

16 minutes ago, EM31 said:

So would this new definition have allowed the Dez Bryant catch or not?

LOL.  Exactly!

Depends on who the official is at that moment I guess.

[Villain The Foe]

This is retarded. You can haul in a catch while sliding two feet in the back of the endzone and it would be considered a TD. Why continue to make this more than what it needs to be? How about getting refs that understands what a catch is instead of playing word games in order to protect poor calls on the field such as the Bryant catch or the Megaton to a few years back that was ruled incomplete. Better refs solves this. 

[Larz]

So the toe tap move ?