Scott Van Pelt gave an eloquent critique of the NFL’s increasingly convoluted logic for what constitutes a catch on ESPN Monday.

SVP says the rule’s language has become too confusing, and that his main issue is that the NFL requires receivers to establish themselves as runners in order for the catch to stand. That notion, he says, breeds a double standard: Is a quarterback, for example, establishing himself as a runner on a QB-sneak when he snaps the ball and advances half a yard into the end zone?

“It shouldn’t be this complicated,” he says, “and it isn’t.”