Quote: Originally posted by Sonofanump

If your a quick enough line judge (NF), you can actually get under the punt and spot it yourself. I perefer doing this then having the referee spot it.



My R has only been doing R for a few years and lining himself up on a scrimmage kick that goes out-of-bounds is about the only thing he hasn't figured out yet. So us wings are left to get this spot on our own. Luckily all of the kicks OOB have been to my side as I am LJ and I am already down field some distance when the ball goes over my head. I move out on to the field some and actually follow the ball along it's flight to the sideline actually almost like laymonr was suggesting. This technique works pretty well but only if the covering official is already down field some distance and can actually see the ball go overhead. Well at one game where I had to do this twice the biggest league commissioner was there to watch his grandson, saw this and informed us of our error. Now we still do the same technique but the R also stands back where the ball was kicked and when we give him a signal, he chops us and we stop at our spot. We still get to the same place but it looks normal. The first time we did that in a game both R and myself had a big smile for each other. Up until this season I would normally see one punt go OOB on the fly. Through the first five games this season we had seven on my sideline and none on the other side plus probably 4 more to my side which bounced out while only one to the other side. While you can get an accurate spot, most if not all league commissioners or anybody reviewing you will have a comment about that technique.My R has only been doing R for a few years and lining himself up on a scrimmage kick that goes out-of-bounds is about the only thing he hasn't figured out yet. So us wings are left to get this spot on our own. Luckily all of the kicks OOB have been to my side as I am LJ and I am already down field some distance when the ball goes over my head. I move out on to the field some and actually follow the ball along it's flight to the sideline actually almost like laymonr was suggesting. This technique works pretty well but only if the covering official is already down field some distance and can actually see the ball go overhead. Well at one game where I had to do this twice the biggest league commissioner was there to watch his grandson, saw this and informed us of our error. Now we still do the same technique but the R also stands back where the ball was kicked and when we give him a signal, he chops us and we stop at our spot. We still get to the same place but it looks normal. The first time we did that in a game both R and myself had a big smile for each other. Up until this season I would normally see one punt go OOB on the fly. Through the first five games this season we had seven on my sideline and none on the other side plus probably 4 more to my side which bounced out while only one to the other side.