Frontcourt Corner Coverage

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Not necessarily. I did see the play but was in camp thinking I should leave it up to my partners. I just did not pull the trigger. And I could not do what you suggest, "I was not watching that, I was watching other action."

I admitted to see the play, I just did not have the best angle and I wanted to give my partners a shot to call the play.

I gotcha. I think there's a difference though between your play and peeking in the corner as Lead. Even if you are really wide as Lead you will need to turn your head/body to look in the corner. When I work Lead that corner is usually 90 degrees to my right or left. My back is to that play. In your play you have the entire frontcourt in your peripheral vision, and I am assuming that you probably had the worst look at the play. There is a reason you passed on the play -- you knew or assumed Lead and Trail had better looks than you and passed on the play for a reason and you decided to trust their judgement.

Your play reminds me of the Kansas-Iowa State charge play two years ago. That play was Lead and C's primary/dual coverage area, either one could have gotten it. Trail could have come to get it, but he was really far away. He passed, and in the resulting suspension/game reduction of the two covering officials, Trail was passed-over for any discipline. He could have come in to "save the crew" but the resulting blame was not on him.