They say recovering a fumble is 50% luck and 50% better luck. There’s no way to tell which way the ball will bounce or who will randomly be in position to fall on it or whether the ball will squirt underneath their arms when they do. But there’s one way to take all that luck out of that: Fumble the ball up in the air, directly to your teammate:

Jonathan Stewart was doing his best Marshawn Lynch impersonation, rumbling through the Bucs defense when a hand stripped the ball out of his hands. It went straight up in the air, almost like a ball tossed by a baseball coach hitting fungos, and went right into the arms of tight end Ed Dickson, who ran untouched for a 57-yard touchdown.

Wait, you might ask, aren’t there rules preventing runners from fumbling forward so teammates can’t do the fumblerooski? (Which is pretty much what happened here, even if inadvertent.) Yes, but those rules only apply in two situations: On a fourth down or with under two minutes remaining in a half. In both those situations, the ball is dead if recovered by another player. A runner can recover and advance his own fumble at any time.

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