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Ignoring and communication.
I'm an official who works for the Danish American Football Federation (DAFF). I was working white-hat at a 4-man crew in a 9-man football game. On a running play off tackle (TE) the ball-carrier was "trippet", meaning fell over a defensive linemans leg (did not go down, but could keep running). Offense sideline yelled out "TRIPPING!!" but I simply replied "no!" and continued officiating; whereafter the sideline went silent.
After the game one of the coaches over and said "You had the comment of the game.." with a smile on his face. They had accepted that I had seen the action, but knew that it wasn't a foul (contrary to them).
At the same time when you have the split-second decision "think-through" time that was discussed earlier, and decides to throw the flag just as a coach yells in you head, that there is a foul I usually reply "I HAVE seen it ,coach!" in a tone that says "back off".
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