Moving Towards LOS at Snap Penalty?

[tukafan21]

Has the league just decided they don't care about calling this a penalty anymore?

It's crazy how many times every week players are moving towards the LOS while in motion when the ball is snapped, sometimes it's pretty egregious too.  This really shouldn't even be a hard one to call, it's so obvious when a player is running in motion while drifting towards the LOS, and sometimes it's not even a drift as much as clearly running on an angle towards the LOS and not parallel to it.

It's slowly gotten worse over the last few years, but this year there seems to be really bad ones and I'm not sure I've ever seen it called a penalty.

Edited November 23, 2025 by tukafan21

[SmokinwithWilly]

Kimd of like the false start on the guards on every tush push. 

[bigdog_10_2002]

Tyreek Hill completely broke this rule when he played for the chiefs. 

[Gregg S]

Yeah, I've been noticing this a lot, especially this year. When it wasn't called, I thought it must be my lying eyes. 

Edited November 23, 2025 by Gregg S

[tukafan21]

15 minutes ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

Kimd of like the false start on the guards on every tush push. 

Eh, that’s a lot tougher to call in real time, it’s only on the super slow motion can you tell when someone moved a split second too early.

These are just so blatantly obvious, saw one today where the player had to have moved a good 2 full yards towards the LOS before it was snapped, was crazy to not be called (might have been DK Metcalf, but don’t remember for sure)

[Candler Cat]

6 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Eh, that’s a lot tougher to call in real time, it’s only on the super slow motion can you tell when someone moved a split second too early.

These are just so blatantly obvious, saw one today where the player had to have moved a good 2 full yards towards the LOS before it was snapped, was crazy to not be called (might have been DK Metcalf, but don’t remember for sure)

Pretty sure a KC lineman at the edge moved before the snap on their 2 pt conversion

[OldhamA]

1 hour ago, tukafan21 said:

Has the league just decided they don't care about calling this a penalty anymore?

It's crazy how many times every week players are moving towards the LOS while in motion when the ball is snapped, sometimes it's pretty egregious too.  This really shouldn't even be a hard one to call, it's so obvious when a player is running in motion while drifting towards the LOS, and sometimes it's not even a drift as much as clearly running on an angle towards the LOS and not parallel to it.

It's slowly gotten worse over the last few years, but this year there seems to be really bad ones and I'm not sure I've ever seen it called a penalty.

You'll only see ACC refs call that on Miami these days. 

[UnluckyforSome]

As a counterpoint, people complain when refs call too many penalties. Everyone has heard how the refs could call holding on every play, either on the O or D. The Legion of Boom operated on the principle of "They-won't-call-it-every-time."

My guess is they just don't believe it is that impactful to the game.

[NorthTryon]

12 hours ago, UnluckyforSome said:

As a counterpoint, people complain when refs call too many penalties. Everyone has heard how the refs could call holding on every play, either on the O or D. The Legion of Boom operated on the principle of "They-won't-call-it-every-time."

My guess is they just don't believe it is that impactful to the game.

Jaycee Horn does the same seemingly. He is super grabby and physical all game, but the refs wait till its particularly impactful in the game to call the penalties. I'm constantly holding my breath on big third down incompletions that a yellow graphic doesn't appear on screen to keep the drive going.