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Old Fri Oct 28, 2016, 08:59am
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On the first play it looked like a legal shift to me. I didn't see movement elsewhere except by the center after the encroachment and nothing the back did made me think he was (a) simulating action at the snap, nor did it appear (b) to be intended to cause B to encroach. That is my assessment, but if your opinion was that the shift did either a or b, a FS is the appropriate call.

On the second play, the player that took the hand off appears to have just pivoted on his left foot to take the hand off. It is difficult to tell with the angle, but it doesn't look to me like he was at least 1 yard behind his line when he took the hand off and I'm not sure that he met the requirement of facing his own end line either. I'm not saying it was clearly illegal forward handing, but I'm leaning toward it.
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