Fair Catch Rules

[MJT]

Originally posted by Theisey
No idea where shave-tail is going, but when any team-R player signals for a fair catch and a different team-R player catches the ball, it's NOT a fair catch but the ball DOES becomes dead when caught.

The officials should have killed the play after the catch and since the other team-R player took off running assess a 5-yard delay foul at the spot of the catch.

Not enough information given as to why there was a dead-ball 15 yard penalty. That could have been correct.

Theisey, I agree the ball is dead when any R player possesses the ball after another signals FC, I would not call a DOG unless he continues running well after we hammer down on the whistle. Remember, he was looking at the ball and did not know a teammate signaled FC. I think we should give him a little bit of slack, as we would if a player didn't know his knee touched on a close one, so he ran a few yards, but did stop on the whistle. I am not saying I would never have a flag, just that I would give him a chance as he is not expecting the play to be immediately dead.