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[cougar729]

Here is a situation, was wondering what everyone else thought about it.

Team A is flagged for a live ball illegal shift at the snap, Quarterback A1 drops back 8 yards to pass but seeing the flag from the Referee he stops as does every other team A and team B member. There was no whistle or anything to cause the ball to be dead, just everyone stopped.

Several questions we came up as an association.

When do you blow the whistle? If at all?
How do you enforce it? IW? The illegal shift?

We basically said that if we blow the whistle it is for safety and the quarterback's forward progress has stopped, so it is not an inadvertent whistle. Choice for the defense, 5 yard repeat for illegal shift, or next down where the quarterback was when we blew it.