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Originally Posted by ajmc
The snap infraction itself causes the ball to remain dead. The fact that your signal may have been somewhat delayed doesn't effect the status of the ball.
As with a majority of false start situations, the ball which remains dead because of the false start foul. actually gets snapped and very often the action of the play starts. However any action that develops is with a dead ball, regardless of when the whistle sounds.
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That's why the snap has to be "quick". You erase from memory the split second between the time the ball first moved and when its being illegal became manifest. Because that's such a short time, there's no chance of there being an intervening violation.
Robert