Question about "delay of game on the defense"
What exactly did we do to receive that penalty?
Replies to: Question about "delay of game on the defense"
Probably the quick shift by our two interior D linemen which they interpreted as simulating
the start of the play.
So... no adjustments of 2 DLs to different gaps before a play?
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You can shift but not in a manner that the refs interpret it as an attempt to get the Oline to jump
John McDaid, the Southeastern Conference's coordinator of officials, outlined a number of the sport's new rules for the coming season, but the onset of "defensive false starts" comes, he said, after a 100 years of that expected discipline on the offensive side of the ball.
McDaid explained how the defensive false start, which officially will be termed defensive delay of game, will work:
"The definition of a false start has forever been action that simulates the snap," McDaid told reporters Tuesday in Atlanta at the SEC's annual media bonanza. "That's standard, action that simulates the snap is now put on the defense as well, and the officials are being asked to judge defensive movement in that light.
"This is action that has now been written into the rules, codified that it's illegal, it's what we call delay of game defense. This is not a false start on the offense. The defense cannot simulate action of a snap for the purpose of trying to get his opponent to move prior to the snap."
That is not a penalty, must have been something else.
I thought I saw somewhere that they were clapping.
Only if you're ND.
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And have ACC refs.
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