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Old Tue May 29, 2007, 10:46am
mcrowder mcrowder is offline
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Originally Posted by NC_Blue
If you're gonna quote me.....quote ALL of me

Tongue in cheek. I'LL PROTECT R2

And yes.....my arm's up. I'm not CALLING anything until I have to, though.
"Calling" something doesn't require anything verbal. If you SIGNALLED obstruction, then you CALLED obstruction. If you're not "calling" anything, 99% of the readers here will take you to mean that you aren't RULING anything (which also means you aren't SIGNALLING anything).

Plus ... saying "unless I rule obstruction" is quite confusing right after the statment that you'll protect the runner. You DO rule (call! ) obstruction (and signal) on this play, just in case something else develops.
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