Yuck all around. This is a good example of what happens when you lose focus for even a second...PU apparently forgot there was R3 and started to trail the BR. So then he gets knocked down making a bad situation worse. So now what do you do?
IMHO, Safe is the correct preliminary call here, as PU did not/could not have seen the play. We can't guess the runner out. The next step is to immediately get the crew together, and see if there is help available from U1/U3 and try to get it right. We don't have replay in this sport, so if no one has a look at the play, then she stays safe. It's already a s**t sandwich, and we might have to eat the whole thing.
The best thing I saw in the video was PU not ejecting the head coach at 0:29 when he throws the clipboard down...IMO prudence dictates that you give the coach about a mile of rope after a game ends like that. So long as the coach doesn't touch me, or tell me he's coming to the parking lot to find me, he can say whatever he wants to this time.
As a side note - I fell down for the first time ever as PU this year while working with Andy....tripped over the grass lip while backpedaling away from a catcher on a foul pop and went down ass over applecart. Things happen. If F2 had caught the ball in my game, or the coach said she did, I'd have never seen it. I would have went straight to my partner for help, because clearly I didn't have all the elements of the play. That's why, and when, we go for help: whenever we are missing a piece of the play.
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