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Old Tue Mar 15, 2011, 12:43pm
JRutledge JRutledge is offline
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee View Post
It is interesting because it does bring up several questions that are related to the thread you're referring to.

By rule, this is a "T". Personally, I wouldn't call it though....and I'd also bet Lark's left nut that we end up with a consensus supporting that stance in this particular situation.

Sooooo....is the end result that we officials are determining whether something should be called no matter what direction the rulesmakers give us? As in the case of when a swung elbow that missed was an automatic "T" by rule, and that rule was almost universally ignored because we thought the punishment didn't fit the crime in all cases? This situation is something like that imo.

Maybe the bottom line is that we think too damn much sometimes and should just follow the rules. Maybe if we all did call 3-seconds strictly by the rule, the teams would adjust and we wouldn't have to talk players out of the paint.

And maybe that's why officiating is as much an art as it is a science.

And maybe I'm thinking too damn much for this early in the morning.


No matter what though, Jeff, I'm still calling a "T" if a player swears loud enough to be heard in the stands(unless he broke a leg or something, of course).
This proves my point. We have people in the other thread that were so eager to follow NF dogma or make an interpretation out of their opinion about what was wrong and in this we have people that want to look the other way when there is an even clearer interpretation. There is no mention of what words are profanity or when they should be used (who hears it and how loud), but there is a rule that says this specific action is completely illegal. But to me it has context and I have enough juice to explain both if not called.

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