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NFHS Officiating: Weekly Dozen 2025 Week 5 | Catch, Fumble or Incomplete?

Weekly Dozen 2025, Week 5 examines NFHS football officiating through 12 game-film breakdowns. Review catch-versus-fumble rulings, illegal formations and shifts, blocks in the back, helping the runner, pass interference, roughing the passer, free-kick rulings, holding principles, and patient whistle discipline.

  • Mark Bradley
  • October 2, 2025
  • Weekly Dozen

NFHS Officiating: Weekly Dozen 2025 Week 4 | Free-Kick Enforcement & Blindside Blocks

Weekly Dozen 2025, Week 4 examines NFHS football officiating through game-film breakdowns of free-kick enforcement, blindside blocks, illegal formations, change-of-possession fouls, pop-up kicks, pass-play responsibilities, and the five-person mechanics officials need when unusual plays test the crew.

  • Mark Bradley
  • September 25, 2025
  • Weekly Dozen

NFHS Officiating: Weekly Dozen 2025 Week 3 | Roughing the Passer & Goal-Line Mechanics

Weekly Dozen 2025, Week 3 examines NFHS football officiating through game-film breakdowns of roughing the passer, quarterback contact, goal-line mechanics, intentional grounding, ineligible players downfield, offensive pass interference, blindside blocks, and the eye discipline officials need to make credible rulings.

  • Mark Bradley
  • September 18, 2025
  • Weekly Dozen

NFHS Officiating: Weekly Dozen 2025 Week 2 | Passing Play Keys & Onside Kick Fouls

Weekly Dozen 2025, Week 2 examines NFHS football officiating through 12 game-film breakdowns. Review passing-play keys, eye discipline, encroachment, offensive pass interference, holding, penalty enforcement, onside-kick coverage, blindside blocks, defenseless receivers, and the five-person mechanics needed to make credible rulings.

  • Mark Bradley
  • September 11, 2025
  • Weekly Dozen

NFHS Officiating: Weekly Dozen 2025 Week 1 | Eye Discipline & Five-Person Mechanics

Weekly Dozen 2025, Week 1 examines NFHS football officiating through 12 game-film breakdowns. Review eye discipline, passing-play keys, scrimmage-kick coverage, forward progress, fumbles, holding, ineligible players downfield, illegal substitutions, and the five-person mechanics officials need to make credible rulings.

  • Mark Bradley
  • September 4, 2025
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  • Mechanics

Be in the Correct Position to Rule on a “Photo Finish”

Photo Finish: “A race or finish in which contestants are so close that a photograph of them as they cross the finish line has to…

  • Mark Bradley
  • February 16, 2024
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  • Miscellaneous

“The Credit Belongs to the Man [or Woman] who is Actually in the Arena”

In 1995 I served as the Fourth-Class Training Director at the United States Air Force Academy. In that role, I was the editor for Contrails,…

  • Mark Bradley
  • February 16, 2024
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  • Miscellaneous

How officiating high school football is like working in a successful restaurant

One of my guilty pleasures is watching cooking shows. If I could go back in a time machine, I might consider attending culinary school and…

  • Mark Bradley
  • December 23, 2023
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  • Mechanics

Pregame Topic: Scrimmage Kick Surprises

It’s interesting how we can sometimes review a play’s description on paper and quickly and confidently decide how we’d officiate the action, but when we…

  • Mark Bradley
  • December 13, 2023
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  • Wing

The Importance of Connected Wings on the Field

Aristotle’s quote, “The whole is greater than the sum of the parts” is fitting when describing wing “connectedness.” If wings do not communicate and connect,…

  • Mark Bradley
  • December 13, 2023
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