Clock Question After Timeout and Penalty on Subsequent Play

[ATL Bear]

Originally Posted by Rich

Ready for play. The previous play and the timeout are irrelevant. Why did the clock stop? To enforce the foul only. Start on the ready.

Thank you for your reply.

It just seems punitive to the defense in that situation, particularly when you're managing clock. No loss of down means in order to get the penalty yardage enforced you have to use multiple timeouts on the same down.