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Originally Posted by just another ref
Your post deals with working to develop a consistent officiating philosophy as a crew. I agree with this and think anyone would. The above post dealt with make up calls.
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No, I don't think it did. I think it had to do with being aware of what your partner called, so you can make the same call on a similar play.
Let's take a block/charge - some plays call themselves. However, there are a lot of these calls where they are so close (did the defender have LGP immediately before or immediately after contact?), you can effectively call them 50/50 plays. How many videos of these types of plays have been posted here, and even after watching replay after replay, in super slo-mo, we disagree? So, in these plays, if I see my partner come out with a block, I am not going call a similar play in front of me a charge just because I think too many blocks are being called. A similar play should have a similar call from all of us. That's what consistency means.
If my partner obviously blew the call, I'm not going to have a make-up call, or make another bad call to even things out. That's not what consistency means. It does mean that I'm not going to "call my own game" no matter what my partners are calling.