[mrm21711]

Hi Everyone,

Long time baseball guy new to football. Also coming back to this forum after being away for maybe 10 years or so!

Question on punts and the back judge (with a 5 man crew). This question/situation came up tonight in a large state rules meeting:

Punt situation, return man muffs punt and kicking team touches. Back Judge throws down bean bag when return man muffs punt and crew gets confused and thinks its a fumble and all hell breaks loose.

Does my retelling of this make sense and is this an issue? When should a Back Judge be throwing a bean bag on punts? Im a bit confused by the concepts of first touching and PSK spot and the concepts behind dropping the bag on punts. Any help in clarifying this issue for me would be most appreciated.