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Old Sat Oct 23, 2004, 08:51pm
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Originally posted by Mountainman
If you do not eject the player who committed this flagrant foul, you could wind up as a defendant in a legal suit if the QB is injured. And if he plays in the next game and commits another flagrant foul resulting in player injury, that may be construed as a continuation of a pattern of officials negligence. There just isn't any way to justify a mere warning or penalty without ejection.
If the QB is injured, you won't be liable the first time the hit is made. Whether you flag it or not has no bearing on whether the QB got hurt. However, if you didn't flag it and it happened again, you would be guilty of negligence. I've had coaches get upset, claiming that we allowed an injury to occur on a play where we flagged it. That is ludicrous to think we are negligent when we are flagging fouls. You can't prevent the first cheap shot.
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