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I'm not sure if anyone posted this or not but I was thinking of a play that I had last Turkey day with a team in the shadow of it's own goal line (ball on 4) with less than a minute remaining ahead 14-7. The coach wanted the punter on 4th down to scramble a bit and step over the endline for an intentional safety. If he did it without being facemasked (which happened) it would have left little or no time on the clock.
Now say that punter muffed the snap and in a haste threw the ball away as time ran out. This new rule does a nice job about not allowing A to gain an advantage "going in" but does not so good of a job in "going out."
If A had thrown that pass it would have been a safety either way. Now because of the loss of down / no untimed down B would not have an opportunity to put the ball in play.
How would you explain to the coach that the game is over and there's nothing he could do to get the ball for at least a free kick with an opportunity to win the game on a return? This was not thought through.
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