Opposing calls

[Ed Hickland]

Glad you brought that up, reminds me to go over opposing calls in this week's pregame.

Whenever there are two flags on the field and one is not mine as the R, I aks the two officials to get together and talk it out among themselves. I will take a leisurely pace to meet them in the hope they work it out before I get there.

If they are having trouble deciding then I listen to both and make the decision. My reason for not being in a hurry is not to give the impression a third official from afar made the decision.