[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

You didn't even have to tell us you don't officiate football. I can tell by your lack of knowledge regarding the the time it took for the flag to be thrown. You see, in football we don't throw our flag immediately upon seeing a live ball foul. We have guidelines for calling fouls such as advantage versus disadvantage. In this play there was holding, Porter waited to see if the defender gained an obvious advantage and it turned out the hold did put the receiver at a disadvantage so then the flag is thrown. Football officiating is totally different that what you do in basketball. In basketball, you cannot wait to see the whole play, and then decide to call a foul as the ball would probably be on the other end of the court. Football is not like that. We can and will wait a couple of seconds. We have plenty of time to see the play and go through the process of determining if what we saw fits the criteria of the rules and the philosophies under which we are there to enforce. Waiting that extra couple of seconds if very important in making sure we have foul. This is probably why we see a lot of incorrect foul calls in basketball because the official has to be quick. Imagine if you had a couple of seconds to think about what you saw. You'd probably get a lot more right like Porter did in his football game.

Yup.