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Originally Posted by maven
As a general principle, that's pretty good. But in case of an accepted penalty, nobody's disadvantaged by the IW, which by your principle explains why we go with the penalty (so far so good!).
But if we treat first touching as akin to a penalty, that would still permit us to negate the IW, and for the same reason, right?
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No, I don't think so.
With the penalty, everything that happens afterward ends up being disregarded anyway. (If the penalty is declined, you're back to replaying due to the IW)
With first touching, you have no idea whether the "zero yard penalty" will be accepted.
I suppose a "fair" way of navigating this would be to let the receiving team decide if they want to accept the first touching, or replay the down. I can see both sides of this.