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Originally Posted by jemiller
Any fouls by the receiving team would still be enforced under the all but one principle as always.
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OK, but that's not what you wrote before. But 3-and-1 would still lead to a problem on a kick play that would be more likely than on a normal play.
The problem is that when the kick is gotten off quickly and the coverage team has a lot of ground to cover, a foul may occur far ahead of where the kick comes down and allow a much longer gain than would be the case on a non-kicking play. For example, suppose every blocking player of R were to tackle a coverage player as soon as the ball crossed the neutral zone. Neither the end of the run nor the spot of the foul would be likely to be a spot from which the markoff would discourage such a play.
Of course you could decide this is not that big a problem, similarly to the way defensive pass interference is penalized from the previous spot even though the pass may have gone far downfield.
Robert