Touchy-Touchy

[Ed Hickland]

If you are looking for agreement that this was a bad call this is not the place.

Your description however well intended is not the description of the official on the field and only he can tell us why he made the call.

To that let me add this, sometimes officials will silently warn a player, not a truly recommended procedure as it is fraught with gotchas, but it can be used effectively to control players. We do not know if that preceded this flag. Nor, do we know hoe controlled or uncontrolled the player's action was.

Bottom line, the call is the call.