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Originally posted by carolinaRRREF
On the holding call, the defensive player was offside?
If I knew how to post pictures, I would, but if you pause the video right at the beginning, you'll see the ball still on the ground in the center's hand, and both the nose tackle AND the player that supposedly got held already in motion, stepping across the line.
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If you have to use a still image to come to the conclusion he was offside, then how would you expect an official to make this call at full speed. Still images are deceiving. It's about at inconclusive as using a still image to say a receiver made a catch. You have to view these types of things in full speed and then make the call. Sure OPI may happen a lot, but how many times do we see a player right in front of the Back Judge get clear separation and then make the TD catch. You'd be a fool not to toss that flag. He'd probably be fired for not making that call.