This is wrong in every way. It looked like DPI from any possible angle or distance.
Officiating in this league is a joke. They pick up the flag when a ref has a better angle last night but never, and I mean never do they get together and discuss the personal foul calls. Just award 15 yards. They are quick to throw flags when teams celebrate the wrong way but Dez Bryant runs on to the field without a helmet and argues the call and no penalty.
And the nfl should take a page from the cfl and have pass interference calls be reviewable.
rams are moving to inglewood
Really bad officiating for the Cowboys / Lions game. Cowboys donāt win without the refs help last night.
Disagree. See Charles Woodson in 2009. And I am a huge! JJ Watt fan.
Good no-call in the Dallas-Detroit game. If anything, the receiver grabbed the defenderās facemask, and should have been called for illegal hands to the face, if not a facemask.
Dallas was clearly the dominant team yesterday. That was evident from the opening kickoff. And the officials ultimately got it right, as the better team gets to advance in the playoffs.
I donāt know what game you were watching. Dallas got smoked in the first half. It would have been a blowout if Detroit played the same in the 2H as 1H.
That call was ridiculous. The defender bowled him over without even looking for the ball. He practically tackled him. The āfacemaskā you mention was the receiver reaching out for the ball and getting completely blocked by the guyās helmet. And thatās ignoring the holding call earlier in the play.
Dallas is the better team, but itās not clear they would have won without some help from the refs.
^You call it āgetting smokedā. I call it āRope-A-Dopeā. We just needed to lull the Kittens into a false sense of security before we unleashed the fury on them. The plan worked like a charm.
All kidding aside, I agree that it was a horribly bad call. First, that was the dictionary definition of pass interference. Second, the defensive holding call has been called a thousand times this year, and they ignored it. Third, they threw the flag. Fourth (and this is what baffles me the most), _ the ref announced the penalty. _ I have never heard of a ref picking up the flag after he has already announced the penalty.
However, I donāt have a problem with them not flagging Dez Bryant for being out on the field without a helmet. I think that was a good job by the officials, to turn the guy around and not influence the game.
I also donāt think that getting the call would have meant a definite Detroit victory. Sure, it would have been difficult to overcome, but for those who say āThat call changed the outcome of the gameā, I disagree. Momentum had already shifted in Dallasās favor, and if Detroit kicks a field goal after that play, the outcome is still the same.
Doesnāt really matter. Dallas isnāt going to beat GB and Detroit would not have beaten Seattle.
I donāt think it definitely changed the game, but it might have been a game changer. Nothing is definite. Stafford is not a very good QB to begin with and the Lions wer struggling in the second half. But you hate to see calls like that.
Reminded me of that one time the refs stole the 2005 SB and gift wrapped it for the Steelers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vURI_Cz-p6s
They need to get that under control, you canāt have those kind of calls in big games.
VP of NFL Officiating: There should have been a penalty
DPI: Judgment call
Jersey pull: Holding
Dez: Judgment call, not an automatic penalty
Weather forecast for Green Bay on January 11 - low of -1, high of 17 degrees Fahrenheit. Have no idea what the wind chill will be.
Calvin Johnson looks much older than his age. The days of him being a dominant player are gone. He looks slow and beat up. He might turn into Larry Fitzgerald circa 2012-2014.
Yes, at least for the playoffs.
the biggest issue with the refs is that a multi billion dolllar bizness like the nfl does not have full time refs. how cheap can you be, i guarantee you that if they had full time refs focused on football the whole year, the product will be much better
^ +1
What would they do for 6 days a week and 8 months a year?
they can run camps, help college guys, pr for the nfl, promote oversees, etc