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[Ed Hickland]

The team in red lacked discipline and the coach admitted it. Later in the game another player was disqualified for attempting to knee an opponent.

This was a tough game to control. Most of the time the philosophy on my crew is to verbally let the player know we saw him and there better not be a next time.

I thought it might have been a block in the back. The offense is coming in the direction of the two players and a legal block on 84 would have been OK.

From the camera across the field it is hard to tell whether the whistle was before or after the hit. I suspect it was before and all that has to do with the speed of sound and the fact my linesman needs to put more volume to the whistle. Given the conditions of the game it would have been easy to give a dead ball personal foul for unnecessary roughness as a clear message to the players.