I have been told that there are a million opinions amongst officials in gray areas pertaining to 'false start' or 'illegal motion'. Let's see if that is true. I had a slot back leave about 1/10th of a second before the snap in my judgement. Now that 1/10th of a second is pretty quick; I through a flag for 'illegal motion' and told the referee 'the slot left early'. The referee said; "you should have had a dead ball foul". Now herein lies the problem. I have seen this foul called as 'motion' 75% of the time and after doing some further study after the fact, I still am seeing some gray areas. The slot did not jump, wiggle or make any other pronounced movement to feign the start of a play; he simply left 1/10th of a second early in my judgement. What's your call?
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Tue Nov 02, 2004, 12:23am
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