Misapp

[MJT]

Originally Posted by MI Official

What happened: a few players came in after Ready for play for a FG attempt....5 seconds later they went off to run an offensive play, violating rule 3-7-3. Ihad alwaysthought itwasn't actually a penalty until theball was snappedsince theplayershould have the chance to go backoff the field.

That is not how the rule reads. The rule states that a substituted player must leave the field immediately. 5 seconds for team A is too long, and most definitely if they start to get into a formation. In this case, it should be a DB foul. Since the ball did not yet become live after the questioned play, you could legally make a change IF that is truly a missinterpretation. I am going to do some looking in Reddings and see if it gives anymore knowledge to this type of play.