A pretty good official!

[BktBallRef]

No, I covered everything with Eli in an email after the game. He's all squared away now!

Nah, I mentioned a few things about the game. He agreed with what I saw as they saw the same things in their tape review. And, of course, he picked up a lot of things that I didn't and told me about the review with his partners. They're pretty serious about their critique.

They had a couple of Defensive 3 seconds and a call out of his primary that Eli made, that they coach ate him up for calling. I think he got it right, but that doesn't always get you out of trouble. There was a double whistle on an offensive foul. Eli dropped and his partner seemed to lose her concentration and lost the fouler. But overall, I thought they worked a very good game.

There was a play with about 18 seconds to play where the ball clearly went OOB off Red. Eli's male partner Ed, gave the ball back to Red. No foul, no one else within 5 feet of the guy. But sometimes things catch us off guard. I was just surprised that the center, Leslie, didn't come to him and offer help. Eli was at trail and wasn't in a position to help. They saw the same thing I saw in the review and Leslie said she wasn't 100% sure on the call. But it was very clear, I think she was probably just too uncomfortable to do it. Red was home, down 4, "do I really want to take the ball away from them on a call that isn't mine?"

That's why have a tough time realistically thinking that an offical is going to come his partner on a traveling call such as the one we discussed earlier. I've never seen it done.