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Originally Posted by Bob M.
REPLY: Basically what I've seen is that throughout the NCAA and definitely in the NFL, they have gotten to a point where there is consistency in calling a false start based solely on the Team A player's action -- whether it is a lineman, back, WR. All are held to the same standards for pre-snap movement. There is no distinction made. It does appear that it is only in HS and below that we have this inconsistency on how the false start rules are applied.
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Bob, I think the problem is at the HS level we do not have an assigner or anyone else telling us "we want it called as a FS in all of those cases." Our NCAA assigner has told us to call FS every time in those situations. I know they are told the same in the NFL. This is a ruling in which I don't know why we would call it any other way in NF ball.
In an NFL training tape I have the supervisor says on the voice over, "this play should have shut down and never happened" on a play where a back moved early and a interception was thrown. He said the offense was penalized cuz the official didn't call a FS when he should have. He continues to say, "nothing good can happen when we don't call a FS in these situations."