Thoughts? (video)

[JRutledge]

All calls are going to be evaluated anyway on tape. But when you have a call at one end and immediately on the other end, you better know why things were called or not called. You will have a result that will be more likely evaluated a lot closer.

And in this day and age with games on video, there are certain moments that will bring more scrutiny then others. I do not think it is that hard to recognize this. If it did not matter then why do coaches ask, "That was not a foul on the other end?" You think they are not going to go review the tape?

Peace

[JetMetFan]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

All calls are going to be evaluated anyway on tape. But when you have a call at one end and immediately on the other end, you better know why things were called or not called. You will have a result that will be more likely evaluated a lot closer.

And in this day and age with games on video, there are certain moments that will bring more scrutiny then others. I do not think it is that hard to recognize this. If it did not matter then why do coaches ask, "That was not a foul on the other end?" You think they are not going to go review the tape?

Peace

This is what I was getting at. Remember, our observer/assigner did say if he’d been sitting at midcourt he might have felt differently. There’s no way to know because he wasn’t. However in his view from where he was sitting it looked as though we all suffered brain lock on the second play. Believe me, he relaxed once the situation was explained but we knew where he was coming from and, more importantly, he knew we were aware of why he said it.

When the second play happened and no one’s whistle went off – I was T on both plays – my first thought was, “We’re going to hear about this at halftime.” There wasn’t any sense of dread but more in the vein of let’s have a valid explanation as to why there wasn’t a call on the second play as opposed to “we missed it.”

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by JetMetFan

.....let’s have a valid explanation as to why there wasn’t a call on the second play as opposed to “we missed it.”

I thought "we missed it" was a valid explanation.