Taking A Knee

[BktBallRef]

Okay. Be sure you pick up your check before you head home.

[BroKen62]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Okay. Be sure you pick up your check before you head home.

Boy, you really are hard to get along with. Are you like that all the time, or has somebody made you mad? Life's too short to go around acting like a sm*** a** all the time. Lighten up.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by BroKen62

Boy, you really are hard to get along with. Are you like that all the time, or has somebody made you mad? Life's too short to go around acting like a sm*** a** all the time. Lighten up.

Sorry I hurt your feelings. But you do have some responsibilities when you step on the field. And if a word to a player or team can do that, there's no reason not to. It's called preventive officiating.

Originally Posted by bigjohn

He is always like that BroKen. He lashes out at me all the time on the NFHS board.

Everybody lashes out at you on the NFHS board.

[HardHat Ref]

Quote:
Originally Posted by bigjohn
He is always like that BroKen. He lashes out at me all the time on the NFHS board.

Everybody lashes out at you on the NFHS board.

Now Thats Funny.

How about this, I think I picked this up on this forum. What I say when the Offense tells me they are taking a knee, I tell the defense If the QB takes a knee don't hit him, I tell everybody protect yourselves and be smart.

[BroKen62]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

It's called preventive officiating.

Understand the concept of preventive officiating, but where do you draw the line to keep from coaching?

[asdf]

Originally Posted by BroKen62

Understand the concept of preventive officiating, but where do you draw the line to keep from coaching?

How is it "coaching", when during the last couple of plays in a 56-6 game you are announcing to the players, "He's taking a knee" ??

That isn't coaching....

Coaching is telling an end in the first quarter ( who is obviously supposed to be off the line, and isn't ) to get back because he's covering up his tight end.

[BroKen62]

Originally Posted by asdf

How is it "coaching", when during the last couple of plays in a 56-6 game you are announcing to the players, "He's taking a knee" ??

That isn't coaching....

Coaching is telling an end in the first quarter ( who is obviously supposed to be off the line, and isn't ) to get back because he's covering up his tight end.

No, but "don't fire off," or "don't hit him" would be.
Also, some would say that the "coaching" example you just gave is a perfect example of "preventive officiating."
In both situations you are trying to keep a player from committing a foul.

[ppaltice]

This thread has ballooned.

My thought is if you are going to tell Team B to play differently because of something Team A told you, you might as well just hold the ball up and end the quarter. Why even go through the motions?

Team B may be holding onto the glimmer of hope that there will be a muffed snap. And in the event that there is a muffed snap, Team B may be handcuffed from the possibility of recovering the loose ball because the officials have interjected themselves into the game.

When Team A tells me they are taking a knee, I tell them that they still have to block, but we will have a fast whistle.

I only talk to Team B if we have had issues leading up to this point that would make me think they would take a cheap shot. But I probably would have already had that discussion prior to the end of the game.

[asdf]

Originally Posted by BroKen62

No, but "don't fire off," or "don't hit him" would be.
Also, some would say that the "coaching" example you just gave is a perfect example of "preventive officiating."
In both situations you are trying to keep a player from committing a foul.

It's 56-6 and the team with 56 is telling you, we are not going to try to score anymore.

They are going to be relaxed and vulnerable to injury if we let the defense bust their chops.

Same thing if the team with 6 says "we're done".

You really gonna keep that a secret from the defense and let them blast through at the snap?

If you answer yes... please refer to my prior 2nd grade / 2-man comment, because quite honestly, you don't belong working anywhere else.