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It's easy for you to say that's offside by wcnitz
That's still not the same angle that the linesman saw.
My point here is that in this case, we are literally talking less than a few inches of offside - possibly - and if an AR has any doubt, they should not raise the flag.
The USSF has down their own studies on this, and determined that when offside is called incorrectly, it is something like 80% wrong against the offense and only 20% the other way.
On the second, I wouldn't call that at any high level unless there was a touch or Czech as clearly hampered by the attempt, which I think the video clearly shows he was not.