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Football Officiating => National Football League => Topic started by: mbyron on August 13, 2011, 06:17:11 AM

Title: Adding a Deep Judge to your crew soon?
Post by: mbyron on August 13, 2011, 06:17:11 AM

The NFL is testing 8-official crews this pre-season.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/sports/football/with-more-passing-nfl-tries-out-an-extra-official-downfield.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/sports/football/with-more-passing-nfl-tries-out-an-extra-official-downfield.html)

Title: Re: Adding a Deep Judge to your crew soon?
Post by: clearwall on August 23, 2011, 11:29:30 AM

Seems that would help a lot for pre-snap stuff, not so much during the actual live-ball stuff. What precludes the B from gettting to one side of the field or the other on those deep plays?