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Old Tue Nov 17, 2009, 05:27pm
bearclause bearclause is offline
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Originally Posted by mbyron View Post
Roughing the passer must occur when you have a passer. A passer by definition throws a legal forward pass. So you couldn't have RTP on this play.

You could have PF for unnecessary roughness, in which case the penalties would offset.
It did occur to me that even if it's not RTP that it could be another PF for hitting a player who's clearly out of the play.

I was just curious as to what might happen if a PF happens after the receiver was down. The defender sort of gives him a little shove but nothing egregious.
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