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Pat Dye Field => War Damn Eagle => Topic started by: Xanusus on October 30, 2011, 11:35:21 AM
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delay of game on the defense? That is the first time I have ever seen that called.
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delay of game on the defense? That is the first time I have ever seen that called.
That's a first for me.
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I've seen it before. I want to say it was called against Auburn a few years ago. I didn't understand it then and I still don't.
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No, other than making contact with the ball prior to the snap or inhibiting the official, I can't see any instance when something like this might be called and then it would be probably fall into the category of unsportsmanlike conduct.
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The only way it can be called is if the defense inhibits the offense from getting the play off. IE, kicking the ball when it's on the ground, running when you've called a fair catch, etc.
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There are a variety of ways that a delay of game could be called on the defense.
The rarest of those is through having illegal equipment. Each time a ref discovers illegal equipment prior to a play, the offending team is charged with a timeout. If they have no timeouts, then they get a delay of game penalty.
A more common way (although still pretty rare) is for the defense to not "promptly" get their substitutions on the field and their replaced players off the field. The offense is prevented from running to the line of scrimmage and snapping the ball if the defense is still in the process of substituting, so the defense has to get their substitutions completed in a reasonable period of time. I would imagine this is a judgment call by the ref that is only made in extreme instances.
Also, if you've got coaches or players who are not in the game that are on the field of play during a play, or are between the sideline and coaching line during a play, then a delay of game penalty will be called.
If you call a timeout but then, at the end of the timeout, your team is not ready to play, then a delay of game will be called.
These are all relatively rare. The most common delay of game penalty you'll see on the defense (or, at least, the most common ones that I've seen) is when defensive players are deliberately being slow to unpile after a play, or are otherwise holding down/back offensive players and preventing them from getting back to the line of scrimmage for the next play.
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I think I have seen it called if the defense is yelling out an offensive cadence. But I have rarely seen the delay of game called on a defense. An explanation by the official would have been nice.
Just a little blurb like, "Number 94 was trying to pay QB on the wrong side of the ball resulting in a delay of game on the defense..."
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I think I have seen it called if the defense is yelling out an offensive cadence. But I have rarely seen the delay of game called on a defense. An explanation by the official would have been nice.
Just a little blurb like, "Number 94 was trying to pay QB on the wrong side of the ball resulting in a delay of game on the defense..."
This is what I think also.
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I think I have seen it called if the defense is yelling out an offensive cadence. But I have rarely seen the delay of game called on a defense. An explanation by the official would have been nice.
Just a little blurb like, "Number 94 was trying to pay QB on the wrong side of the ball resulting in a delay of game on the defense..."
I bet AWK got called for that many times when he couldn't resist the opportunity to jump over there and get "under center".