Your understanding agrees with mine. Problem is in 1999, a change was made to 7-5-12 to say that ineligibles are illegally downfield only when going beyond the expanded neutral zone, regardless of whether they were blocking or not. I think this was in error. 1999 was when the rule was changed so that restrictions for ineligibles downfield were terminated when the pass was touched by B behind the line of scrimmage.
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