Twitter: Cowboys have talked to league about officiating

[Wichitaleafs]

I mean really if the league wants to fix games then why would they want the Cowboys to continuously lose? They are the most popular team in the league wouldn't it behoove them to "let" them win once and awhile, and I mean a lengthy run in the playoffs. The NFL would benefit from that.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

I mean really if the league wants to fix games then why would they want the Cowboys to continuously lose? They are the most popular team in the league wouldn't it behoove them to "let" them win once and awhile, and I mean a lengthy run in the playoffs. The NFL would benefit from that.

Because there are more fanbases (including some of our "fans" apparently) who hate this team more than there are ones that like us.

 

[BBGTYCOON]

Running don't work if their not afraid of the pass,which is what we're seeing now.

If schemed for competently, Pollard is a dynamic enough runner that 85% of the league would have a very hard time trying to stop or slow him down.

 

[BBGTYCOON]

The NFL should take these complaints serious. If this is to be the NFL product then I wouldn’t watch. The refs destroyed that game yesterday. The flags they threw you could legitimately throw them on every play. If it’s not obvious you simply don’t call it. If it’s iffy you let it go, very simple. If I was someone who never watched football and that was my first game I would say this sport sucks.

Every game isn't quite this bad but that's been the NFL product for at least the last 20 years.

 

[BBGTYCOON]

All teams AND their fans are being boned week in and week out by part time referees, what a joke.

The difference is the Cowboys get No Vaselined and kicked in the face.

 

[Captain-Crash]

Mama don't like cry babies.

 

[BAT]

 

[RaZon]

The NFL is all about entertainment,WWE style...I'm sure the players all want to win but the league is all about money,and if helped the league to fix a game,they can freely do it without punishment and I have no doubt it's already happened,i.e..the Steeler and the Seahawks Sb,or sb 13 for that matter.

Dude, you gotta be kidding, hahaha!!!!

 

[Beast_from_East]

I'm sure Goodell is having a good laugh at McCarthy's complaints

Yep, Goodell will have a good laugh and then wipe his arse with Fat Mike's complaint letter

 

[BAT]

 

[Bullflop]

Something seems amiss when a home team can't get the benefit of a close call, especially when the truth seems to favor them. That has been fairly obvious lately and I don't blame MM for lodging a formal complaint to Goodell. I, honestly, don't expect Goodell to change that decision, although, hopefully, he'll be aware that the discrimination isn't going unnoticed. It's always tough for the Cowboys to get favorable calls these days, that much is evident to many observers, even to some of their opponents' fans. "Taking it on the chin," certainly isn't likely to change that tendency, in the Cowboys' favor. MM, at least, tried to call attention to his concern for fair calls by the officials.

 

[CWR]

They've been my team for over 50 years and always will be, it's just not fun anymore.

It was a lot of fun until the last few weeks. That said I was also highly frustrated during the Pats game and in the beginning of the Eagles game when we had an obvious TD ruled down.

This is the worst officiating I've ever witnessed, and the big breaks never seem to go our way.

 

[Captain-Crash]

 

[bigE79]

Dude, you gotta be kidding, hahaha!!!!

If you choose to believe that the NFL is beyond this, you're blind... why do you think the NFL classified itself as an entertainment industry instead of a sport... don't believe me,look it up.

 

[Creeper]

Fair enough, but you severely undermine your credibility by not including the head bob procedure penalty on the Raiders C that stalled out that drive and enabled the Cowboys to get the ball back with enough time to tie the game. THAT was also one of the worst calls in the game, if not THE worst.

The head bob is a penalty and Biadasz was called for the same penalty against the Chiefs. The center and QB can make slight moves before the snap but they cannot make any sudden moves like a severe head bob or sudden jerky movements with the hands. The Center can duck his head before the snap and all centers do it when the QB is not under center, but the Raiders Center made a very sudden and abrupt head bob and that is a penalty.

ARTICLE 2. FALSE START
It is a False Start if the ball has been placed ready for play, and, prior to the snap, an offensive player who has assumed a set position charges or moves in such a way as to simulate the start of a play, or if an offensive player who is in motion makes a sudden movement toward the line of scrimmage. Any quick abrupt movement by a single offensive player, or by several offensive players in unison, which simulates the start of the snap, is a false start.

 

[BoysWin]

What a clown!!

NFL Officiating has made the NFL a clown show.

 

[Reid1boys]

We had better called games when they were on strike. Bring back the replacements. These guys are full of crap.

I dont watch college football very often, but today I watched Auburn vs Alabama. Those refs were way better than what we get each week.

 

[TheHerd]

Absolutely. It makes NO sense how much money is invested into this league to let such awful officiating ruin so many games

It is exactly BECAUSE there’s so much money involved that the rule book is so obfuscated and the officiating is so blatantly terrible.

 

[TheHerd]

I dont watch college football very often, but today I watched Auburn vs Alabama. Those refs were way better than what we get each week.

I’ve started watching a little college this year. The officiated and use of replay is night and day. The NFL should be embarrassed. College proves how easy it would be to improve the game.

 

[JustChip]

It will fall on deaf ears.

The NFL FO is like one of my wife’s former bosses. He was big on telling employees he had an open door policy and to come to him with any complaints or suggestions. One of her coworkers did just that. His response to that coworker was “get your whiney a*%s out if my office.”