All good stuff. When do we get to see some body cam footage? Have you been able to view the footage and make any changes (mechanics, verbiage) to the way you officiate?
Minor point on the opening kickoff: There should have been a bean bag down where the receiver caught the ball marking the momentum spot since his momentum took the ball into his end zone. The bean bag would also confirm that the ball was caught in the field of play.
Good job guys and kudos for putting yourselves out there to be open for critique, it’s the mark of a good official. Thanks for your consistency in putting out these videos everyday all year long, the EFOA is an asset to HS officials everywhere. Play 4, good call on the hold, also good no call on the BSB, the BSB isn’t forceful enough in my opinion which is an element of the crime, looks like you all agreed. However the enforcement of the hold is improper. It is previous spot enforcement as the foul was behind the LOS. The U does go to the box to walk it off (good), but marks it off from the flag (bad). The ball was snapped from the left hash at the 15-THAT is the previous spot, not from near the right hash where the foul was. Your BJ is on the end line which must be your mechanic. We have an option when snapped here for the BJ to set up 5 deep in the end zone and read the play and react, here it’s a run and the goal is threatened the BJ would move up and cover the GL. Play 5. Good job Ryan #2. My problem is the umpire, not misspotting the ball, that happens, but him standing there and waiting for the ball kid to bring him the ball. Go out and get it. This looks horrible and dare I say lazy. Go get the damn ball and hustle back and spot it. The U controls the pace and tempo of the game. Play 6 great spot Ryan 2, good job U hustling up to spot ball too. Play 7 again great job Ryan 2 of game awareness yes leave the LOS there but I’d hustle down quicker to cover that play. Play 8 I disagree no way I’m calling that in a 48-7 game. Not a chance. But, when you do throw a flag, after the ball is dead, kill the clock and hustle in to report. You were probably disgusted you had to throw it and forgot, but I think that’s one we can pass on. 41 points isn’t a running clock in WA? Wow. Interesting about the body cam. Do you turn it on and off during the game or does it run the whole time? If you do turn it on off has that extra duty been distracting for you? Thanks guys.
I agree you had a good spot on the QB slide but a great spot would have been at the 45. He initiates his slide as he is crossing 45. The fact that you had him short is great but that extra yard might have been enough to entice them to go for it instead of punting.
The KO we moved the wings to be on the GL with the R for plays like this to help on. A CFO mechanic, but adjust for 5 man and kickers that can’t kick deep. Easier to officiate from the front and not looking back ball watching.
1) Kick was caught at about the 2 with the momentum taking the player back. That's a good no-call there. 2-3) Hope the kid got benched for that. That's a stupid penalty and the first of two for ejection if the process requires. I'm not sure, if I were the coach, he sees the field again unless it's necessary. We don't need that lip on the field. 4) He's being grabbed around the left shoulder. Good to call that at the point of attack on the hold. As far as a blindside block goes, you'd have to simply call that not a block, that the guy just got run over because he was in the way. There's the no-call. If that's a block, it's blindside. The problem is the player got run over. 5) Make sure everything is getting communicated, yes. That can be a rather sticky moment, depending on circumstances, but good to get the spot right. 6) Great spot on the slide. QB forgets that, on a surrender slide, the spot is where the slide begins. He's two yards short, as the referee correctly spots. 7) ... which, of course, no one knows due to the scorebug not being updated at all. :) As for the mechanics, that's game awareness. You know what is probably going to happen, so you try to be ready for that, and, given what was needed, it was good that you did, as you needed someone on the goal line to make sure he got in. 8) That's good for consistency's sake. That IS an illegal formation, seven not on the line. It makes it clear to both teams that it will be flagged, regardless of the circumstances -- so that if a more-important situation comes later, the rules can be counted on to be consistent. That's what you need as officials. Good flag as a teaching moment.
Play 4 was snapped from the far hash and enforced from position 3. Previous spot enforcement should have been enforced from the literal previous spot. Good call for the hold. On the QB slide, his hip drops at the 45-yard line. I think. You gave him an extra yard.
No, that first holding call doesn't look at all like you described it. I see no attempt to back up being frustrated by an opponent's grab, he just goes down from legal contact. Look at his knee bend, he's trying to push back. The fact that the blocker may have wound up with a lot of cloth in his hands is immaterial, if you don't mind the pun; it didn't contribute to the advantage. The subsequent no-call of a blind side block I agree with, but the fact it could be called at all is an unfortunate commentary on how much a player is allowed to be looking in a direction different from where his body is moving, and being protected in that sense. Is the contact forceful? Well, yeah, it's gotta be, just so the blocker doesn't get thrown even harder! The only way I see that the blocker could've converted that into legal contact would be as a hands block, which would've allowed him to absorb more force but would've been fairly well useless to the play. I liked the game better when players were responsible for looking where they were going and a smaller player could make up with a good zetz what he was giving up in momentum at contact.
Our association in TN has also moved the U to the backfield. The mechanic of holding the H on the line until the ball passes the line does not mesh well with the mechanic calling for the B to key to the L's side on pass formations if the set is balanced. You could have two wideouts to each side and the B would be keying to the L side, leaving no one covering the two wideouts. I see why the flag on the victory formation was thrown, but it would be tempting not to.
Interesting on the hold call. I can totally see what you are saying and would've made the same call real time. However, in slow mo it appears that the defender ran into the blocker legs buckle when he tries to lift his leg to gather himself the lineman ( who was already driving forward ) continued to drive and that is when the defender went down. Like I said real time I call hold slowed I have a no call. great game officiating though guys!
The BSB was a shoulder hit to the chest; where do you get "blind side" from? The kneel down penalty; if the core was in fact 48-7 you need to let that kind of ticky-tack call go in my opinion.
i see the linemen grab inside the numbers and then the white player, trips his feet up causing himself to start falling backwards. I probably wouldn't have called holding.
Blindside blocks are legal. The kind y’all are seeking is the illegal kind. Please be so kind as to differentiate between the two. Good flag for illegal formation. Would have loved to have the L join you on rhat
