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Now if they really wanted to let us let B decline the penalty and take the ball over instead of taking the safety then there would have to be two different rules written for illegal forward passes. One for when the pass was attempted from in or behind the neutral zone and another for when the pass was attempted from beyond the neutral zone.
Then this would consider the illegal pass from in or behind the neutral zone to be part of a loose-ball play and thus the spot of the foul would only be a spot for enforcement and not the end of a run. This way the play would only end in an incomplete pass and if the penalty was declined then the ball would go back to the previous spot.
While if the pass was attempted beyond the neutral zone then this is all a running play (just as the rule is written today) and thus the spot of the foul is also the end of the run. This way an illegal pass 80 yards down field would not bring the play all the way back to the previous spot.
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