Dead Ball foul or Roughing or neither

[MD Longhorn]

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Well, duh! And lots of things are illegal during one interval of a game, and illegal during another interval.

But you were implying it should be a foul during a dead ball interval because it would've been one during a live ball interval.

Here's what I'm saying in a nutshell.

The contact was obviously WAY after the whistle - and should be a dead ball foul.

There are times, when (for whatever reason) it is not clear to the player that the play is dead (like in this case, the whistle was late or weak), the excuse is made that a foul shouldn't be one because he didn't know the play was dead and whatever he did would have been okay if the play was not dead.

In this case, even THAT argument can not be made, because what he did would have been a foul even if the ball had been live.