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Originally posted by cmathews
Do you agree that it in reality is impossible to have a "blarge", that it is either one or the other, but from different officials may get different judgements? If you agree with that do you also agree that the federation should change the case book interpretation??
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I agree that a play cannot be both a block and a player control foul. One or the other happened. Either the defender was legal or he wasn't. One of the officials got it wrong.
Having said that, I don't think we want to change the interpretation. I don't want to see officials on the floor get into a, uh, shouting match as to who had the best angle. This interpretation gives a clear cut solution to a very bad situation. I'd stick with it unless something equally clear cut could replace it, like "the Trail's call always stands". Otherwise, you open it up to differing results each time it happens. Just my opinion.
Chuck