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Originally Posted by fullor30
I was thinking to myself, would I do the same? Maybe, maybe not.
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We pre-game this all the time. If one official doesn't know what direction to call and asks for help, the other official(s) will simply signal the direction and away we go. If an official does signal a direction, but one of the other officials is 100% they saw it wrong (or 116%, 123%, whatever...), then that official will go to the calling official and give them that information. That allows the calling official to correct their call. I have even gone so far as to tell my partners, "If you're coming to me with information, I'm probably changing my call even before you get to me", due to the fact I trust that my partner is sure of his/her information.
That's probably what happened here; Jamie was sure that Phil might've been too close and didn't see the whole play, so he came in with the info. Phil's probably saying "thanks" because he was probably the only one that didn't see it correctly.