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Originally Posted by Ref inSoCA
If it's in the NF Mechanics Manual, you may be right. I've never seen the NF Mechanins Manual--we don't use it.
There is no reason to blow a whistle on an incomplete pass but sine the orgoinal poster doesn't work here I won't tell him that.
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Thing is, I don't work in the US but I try to do things as you do up there since you're the inventors of the sport.
As I've heard and read from NFL rulebook, the covering official must blow the play dead. The other officials should confirm the whistle.
Now, this may be wrong or not done usually but since the book was the only thing I had till now, that's what I do.
Besides, we have a 20 yards pass incompletion downfield and the O-lineman are still blocking. If there's no whistle and they can't see the result of the play, how do they know it's over? This may sound stupid to you all but it's not clear for me. I had players screwing up after a dead ball because they didn't hear the whistle