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Originally posted by JimNayzium
Wow, my fan following precedes me...hahaaha....

1. Where should a line judge be on a play coming towards him. My grandad trained officials for thirty years, and he said two things: One, you can always tell a white cap is no good if he misses FIVE backs . . .

Have to agree with others here. This is the wings call, not the R's.

and TWO, you can always tell a line judge is no good if he lets the ball get between him and the sideline.

ON the crucial third and eight while my team was leading by one point in the fourth quarter with two and a a half minutes left the line judge actually blocked our cornerback on a swing pass. This block occurred at the numbers, so don't anyone tell me my team was not behind their line and forced this guy out that far.

It was a bubble sreen laser pass to the inside receiver of Two wideouts. Our press corner beat his block by the offensive player and was in perfect shape to make a shirt tackle for no gain, but the line judge just stood there on the numbers as the ball was thrown right towards him, caught five yards from and he stayed there like a tree, which the receiver had the savvy to use him as a pick and go around him up the sideline for a gain of...you guessed it eight yards on third and eight.

As others have said, hopefully, he learned something from it If it happened several times, then the wing guy is a little TOO confident in his abilities. I agree he SHOULD NEVER let it happen. If I were the R and saw it happen, I'd tell him to move to the sidelines.

Maybe he was out there because he was tired of hearing from the coaching staff

The same judge later on our game winning drive on fourth and four after we had made five yards, called my tight end for having his chin strap unbuckled...My tight end had had his buckle broken the previous play and still had one of two lower snaps snapped. This referee gives no equipment warning or timeout, just a flag with one minute left in the game after an exciting fourth and four conversion, he calls it back ...

In my area, this is a dead-ball foul. Should never have let the snap occur.

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for equipment violation when the kid had it snapped, just not both done.
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As other have stated, this is still an equipment violation.

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Certainly, he could have seen it, and then made the player go out the very next play..why call it in the heat of battle like that...well i asked him, very loudly, and he responded, " Coach I 've warned number five three times this quarter about his chin strap, sorry but I cannot put up with a player ignoring me like that."

To which I politely responded, " That's all fair and good Mr. Referee, but what does it have to do with my tight end, number TWENTY FIVE that you just flagged for his chin strap." To which he replied, "It was number FIVE." To which I replied, "You mean this number FIVE," And my number FIVE was right be me, not even in on the play.
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Even the most experienced guys can have problems with uniform numbers, ESPECIALLY on the wings. If you knew who it was, "one-upping" the official probably wasn't the best solution to the problem. In fact, I think that contributes to more problems.

C'mon, give me some love here guys...This is pretty bad isn't it.

FOR the record we lost 23 to 14, they scored very late after we tried hail maries and stuff...it was a SIXteen fourteen game really.....

And for the record we should have won 35 to nothing. My offense fumbled....get this NINE times. We had three hundred and sixty yards offense on sixty plays in the game....NINE fumbles, we lost seven of them.

So to the referees out there, just know I am not blaming this poor call by the official for our loss. I am just under the opinion that is was a horse crap call to make. It however, was not the reason we fumbled NINE Times....

I always appreciate coaches who don't blame the officials. However, from your description of the problems, I can only see two.

1. Not penalizing the equipment foul as a dead-ball foul.

2 A wing getting beat to the outside.