Justin_Rice
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At that level it feels cheap.
You make good points.
Still: "Watch the ball and don't jump offsides" remains a valid strategy.
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At that level it feels cheap.
I believe it goes down as TEAM rushing, at least that's the way we do it.I count them as runs, then add the penalty, even if the call was behind the line of scrimmage. So, yeah, sometimes I gotta give some poor guy a negative-yard run because the foul happened behind the line of scrimmage.
What gets really weird is on an incomplete pass with a holding penalty behind the line of scrimmage. I give the quarterback a rushing loss on a play on which he threw a pass.
I have no idea if that's right or wrong. I started doing it because if the penalty is 10 yards, the other yards have to be accounted for somehow. Nobody's told me otherwise.
Officials around here walk off plenty of 6- and 11-yard penalties, anyway.
I believe it goes down as TEAM rushing, at least that's the way we do it.
What about a holding or illegal block penalty on a running play? In high school, those are 10-yard penalties from the spot of the foul so you get some weird distances marched off.
I've always counted those as runs and gave the person the yardage to the point of the penalty, then minus-10 from there, if the penalty occurred past the line. If the penalty is behind the line and it ends up being a 14-yard penalty or something like that, I just count all of the loss as penalty yardage and no run.
Never been sure if I've been doing it right or wrong all these years.
I believe it goes down as TEAM rushing, at least that's the way we do it.
I don't know if some officials are doing it wrong then, because there have been spot fouls walked off from behind the line of scrimmage. So I either have to give some guy a loss, then a 10-yard penalty or I have to give a (X+10)-yard penalty.
It's the same thing if there is intentional grounding. Spot foul, loss of down. All of the lost yardage is penalty yards.