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I agree with Sam. On a 3 man crew, if the B3 went out and was on the line, he definitely has the best call on the ball. Also, since you said one of your coaches from another part of the field thought it was foul, there's not much ground on which to question the blue.
As far as overruling my call? Not gonna happen. I will always talk to my partners and get whatever input I believe I need. But it's still my call. I haven't had anyone try to do that in a long time. If my partner tries to make me ( read that as "us" ) look bad by running out and overrulling me, one of us will be leaving the field, just as soon as we get it straight whose call it was. Or else we'll come to an immediate agreement as to whether that will ever happen again. And I promise you, we'll never call together again.
I've never had a problem changing a call, if my partner saw something I didn't that affects the play. I've even gone out and begged my partner to tell me something about what they saw. I've had a few tell me it's my call, they "won't overrule me." That's never what I'm asking for. I am darned near ( 99.9%) satisfied with my call, with what I saw. (That .01%? I still have mental breakdowns on the field sometimes. But I've never been so full of myself that I wouldn't admit the possibility that I might not have been able to see everything on the play. That's what partners are for. To assist each other, but absolutely never to overrule.
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