Yes it does. Look at my screen print. They are now scrubbing the site of it.
I am not sure where you are getting your links, but here is pertinent part of the rule cut and pasted from the NFL rule book link that was posted earlier . . .
DEFENSIVE TEAM FORMATION
Article 3: Defensive Team Formation
(a) When Team A presents a punt, field-goal, or Try Kick formation, a Team B player, who is within one yard of the line of scrimmage, must have his entire body outside the snapper’s shoulder pads at the snap.
(b) When Team A presents a field-goal or Try Kick formation:
(1) No more than six Team B players may be on the line of scrimmage on either side of the snapper at the snap; and
Note: These restrictions do not apply if a team does not present a standard punt, field goal, or Try Kick formation (an equal number of players on the line of scrimmage on either side of the snapper in a tight formation), or if, after the offensive team has assumed a set position, there is a shift, or a player goes in motion.
Penalty: For illegal formation by the defense: Loss of five yards.
(2)
Team B players cannot push teammates on the line of scrimmage into the offensive formation.
Penalty: For unnecessary roughness: Loss of 15 yards.
B(2) seems pretty clear to me. And nothing is mentioned about the offending playing being from the "second" level . . .
And when we honestly look at the play we see it being a long FG attempt so the angle of the kick will be lower so a D-line push is key, also, the guy that was in front nearly got to the ball . . . so it was not like a penalty that occurred away from the play, the offending contact was on the player that was the closest to the ball . . .
We all of the above said, if they had not called it, likely no one would of noticed . . . also, it was one of those new rules you wish they would have enforced earlier in the season or even in preseason, to get the teams warmed up to it . . .
I gotta think this has happened before and as such we were kind of lack and did not think it would be call . . .
it is one of those frustrating things, it is technically a correct call, but if they let it go, no one would of complained . . .
