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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Disagree completely.
The FED is telling us through that POE that those examples are no-brainers. There's no judgment required at all and they ARE automatic foul calls. They emphasized that by issuing the statement that "hand-checking is NOT incidental contact." By stating that, they took the guesswork right out of the call.
You can either follow the FED's direction or decide not to. My recommendation is to check locally and then follow their direction.
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The way I read it, NFHS is trying to tell us that the defender gains an advantage (whether we perceive it or not) automatically upon these three examples, and we are to call it.