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Originally Posted by whitehat
Mb, nice clarification...
Assuming this question is answered I am wondering if anyone else out there feels the need for a change In NF rules pertianing to fouls by the offense behind the previous spot. Like your garden variety holding by A on a pass play, which could end up being about a 20 yard penatly when enforced from the spot according to the ABO.
I bring it up because I think the NCAA rule is much more reasonable in that it takes such fouls behind the previous spot and enforces them from the basic spot (previous spot in this case) instead of the spot of the foul.
Seems like we are "over penalizing" a bit the way we do it in NF.
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I'll point out that Fed's enforcement spot is the more traditional one in this case among USAn codes. Before the 1970s, NFL & NCAA penalized it that way too. NFL changed first, I don't remember when NCAA followed.
You could say that if the passer could avoid an intentional grounding call yet produce an incompletion intentionally, if he saw the rusher coming after the hold or trip or whatever, then he could have avoided a loss anyway. I guess that's the philosophy of enforcing from the previous spot.