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Old Wed Sep 05, 2007, 02:04pm
Jim D Jim D is offline
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Originally Posted by wheels
You are giving the Offense a huge advantage. If he doesn't know the play, then why would you bail him out. It's not our job to give the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not giving the offense a huge advantage - the offense already has that huge advantage given to it by the rules. It can move all sorts of people in different directions and start and stop their movements.

A back is allowed to move and then reset as long as he does commit a false start, it isn't illegal motion or an illegal shift. Whether his movement is a false start or not is a judgment call. As you can see from this discussion there is a lot of disagreement on this and there has been as long as I've been officiating.

I don't think you can claim one view is right and the other is wrong in this type of play. Sometimes it's a FS and sometimes it isn't.
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