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These guys are slipping pretty bad (unless I'm missing something). It seems like the frequency of errors has gone up quite a bit lately. Page 62 of May edition (Case Play - "Helmet Comes Off."
Play: First and 20 on A's 20 yardline. QB A1 wants to throw a forward pass to halfback A2, who is at team A's 15 yardline. Linebacker B3 covering A2, grasps and twists A2's facemask, causing A2's helmet to come off. The ball is then passed to A2, who catches the ball at team A's 23 yardline.
Ruling: It says that A has the choice of DPI or enforcing the face mask foul. This is incorrect.
First, the wording is poor in that you really can't tell exactly where B3 fouled. Did B3 foul at the 15 or the 23? From the way I read it the foul occurred at the 15. But either way it was BEFORE the pass so this can't be DPI regardless of where the foul occurred. And if was during the pass you really don't know if the foul occurred at the 15 (which again you can't have DPI because it's behind the NZ). Bad wording, and bad ruling.
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