How Do You Penalize Chipping by the Offense?

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Forksref

Are you telling me that negating a score is less severe than allowing a score and penalizing on the try??

No, I'm saying that in most cases of UR there's no score involved, so there's no score to negate. The down will count, and it will hardly ever make sense to decline the penalty, and the situation will usually be worse for the penalized offensive team if it's a foul between downs than it would've been had it been judged a live ball foul.

Since when is it the officials' authority to make penalties "uniform?". (whatever that means)

It means that if you look too closely for the time of the UR foul vs. when the ball became dead, you'll be basing a big swing in penalty on a small difference in judgement.

Robert