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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Assuming the ball wasn't snapped at that point, it's a false start -- simulating action at the snap. In fact, that's a paradigmatic type of tactic the rule against simulating action at the snap was written against.
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No. The number of ways that is wrong is nearly without number. What action was simulated? Preparation for receipt of a possible snap? No. And no, that's NOT what the rule is referring to. that rule is more for the running back that suddenly starts forward on a false count, but then goes in motion. The SUDDEN start, designed to simulate the beginning of the play, is what is a false start.
Now... say your in motion guy reaches under then suddenly drops back a yard as if to prepare to pass --- then we have a false start.
The OP? No way.