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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
Yeah, but it doesn't matter in this case whether the person knows the official terms or not. We understood "covered" to mean "took a position on the line closer to the sideline than", and "X" to mean "some teammate", which is all that mattered. (Actually, not even those details mattered!) It may be a problem in some cases, but don't make it a problem when it's not. And when it is a problem, some additional dialog can usually clear it up.
The coaches have it worse than the officials in that there's no universal meaning to much of their jargon. "X" has a different meaning to most coaches now from what it did 40 years ago, and it was never universal anyway. The letters in the back of the alphabet used to mean "primary receiver", "secondary receiver", etc. in order of passer's reads; lately it's become common to label the ends "X" & "Y", but when one coach talks to another various "gotchas" come up that vitiate that understanding.
Robert
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You just made my point. You just suggested that coaches do not have a universal language. Based on that knowledge I have, you would be surprised what coaches say that are not accurate to what they feel the rulebook. And that is the reason I did not go into more detail as to what the requirements are to get a handoff, because it is likely he would not understand if he was not an official. The best example of this was yesterday during a game I had a coach ask me and my umpire on the game about a "high-low" block. He was convinced it was illegal until it was fully explained to him. He thought that any high-low block was illegal. It has to be explained to him that the low block had to be delayed to have an illegal block or chop block as the rulebook states it is.
Peace