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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue
I'm not surprised that with two officials looking at the same play, they will sometimes see it differently. As I said a couple of times, I was more concerned with the mechanic of correcting the call. I like the fact that it was immediate and emphatic. No egos were bruised and the replay showed that the second official was correct. It seems to me that the replay system works as well as the original official. Both have faults, but the goal remains the same. Get the call right! They did and it looked good.
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One thing to clear up, the officials didn't see it differently, they just were looking at different things, they have to make a decision using shared information, the first official did not see anything that would have made it incomplete, so he did not signal incomplete. Infact I will describe to you what could be a posibility on what happened.
LJ comes in and gets the spot, looks over to the SJ who doesn't signal but comes running over. LJ signals complete, SJ asks if the player was forced out, LJ says no, SJ signals incomplete and explains that he did not get two feet inbounds.