When the penalties are close enough to being simultaneous so that nobody could possibly argue otherwise, I always enforce them in the order that doesn't benefit one of the teams. If enforcing B's first gives A a first down, I'll enforce A's first. If enforcing one gives us the "half-the-distance" followed by 15, I'll enforce the other one first.
Don't get me wrong, if I know one foul is clearly after the other, we'll do it by the book. Every time.
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