The Cowboys did all of that and at the end of the day the game came down to the refs taking 17 points off the board as well as several other big plays to penalties that made me go "huh". I will happily take a win but the Chargers are not going to make the playoffs and they needed multiple gifts from the refs to keep it close. That is not a good sign.
When refs “take points off the board” or bring back big plays, it isn’t an absolute axiom of football that they screwed up. Official’s jobs can be completely and reductively boiled down to instant, reactive decision making based on a subjective understanding of the objective NFL rule book.
With that in mind, firstly, mistakes are gonna happen and secondly, the vast majority of the time, whether or not it was a mistake, is a HUGE debate. I personally rarely, if ever, discount the player’s contributions to a win over and above the refs. I see no reason to do that today either.