Let me show you how the refs completely botched the spotting of the ball after Dak's slide

[DOUBLE WING]

We have to go back to the Cowboys' last brutal playoff defeat, in 2019 against the Rams.

In that game, the Rams were driving just before halftime to try and secure a long field goal attempt for a kicker some of you may have heard of, named Greg Zuerlein.

With no timeouts left, Jared Goff completes a pass across the middle to Robert Woods, who is tackled and immediately spots the ball himself. The center grabs the ball and the offense gets in position to snap it. At no point does anyone hand the ball to the referee. In fact, if you blink, you may have missed the referee completely. He zooms into the screen momentarily, lightly taps the top of the football, then scurries out of the way so the Rams can snap the ball and clock it.

Watch:

Contrary to what Tony Romo would like you to believe, the referee does not need to be physically handed the football, they simply need to touch it. Biadasz had the ball in hand, on the turf, with four seconds left on the clock. A competent referee simply needed to run to the line (but not into the quarterback), touch the football, and then get out of the way, allowing it to be snapped and clocked with about one second to spare.

A few things:

1. This is not the reason the Cowboys lost.

2. Asking Dak to run, slide, and clock the ball was still a dumb, and far too risky, play call.

3. This is not a conspiracy against the Cowboys; it's incompetent officiating.

4. Regardless of points 1, 2 & 3, the fact of the matter is the Cowboys absolutely should have gotten the opportunity to run one more play from the 24-yard-line.

 

[RomoIsGod]

 

[beacamdim]

Boo hoo.

Please just stop burying the lede: stupid, undisciplined team plays stupid, undisciplined game.

 

[big dog cowboy]

I don't need any more reason to hate the refs.

 

[TRUTH87]

that whole thing was a mess. i believe our center placed the ball in the wrong spot. plus ref sacked dak (literally) and then still had to place ball in correct spot….horrendous sequence of events.

it was so stupid of a play call the niners never expected dallas to run up the middle with 14 seconds left

 

[DOUBLE WING]

Boo hoo.

Please just stop burying the lede: stupid, undisciplined team plays stupid, undisciplined game.

Yes and nothing in this post is refuting that point. Reading is fundamental; try it sometime.

 

[RomoIsGod]

While Dak was running, he should have just thrown a pass backwards out of bounds near the end of his run. That would have stopped the clock.

 

[Floatyworm]

We have to go back to the Cowboys' last brutal playoff defeat, in 2019 against the Rams.

In that game, the Rams were driving just before halftime to try and secure a long field goal attempt for a kicker some of you may have heard of, named Greg Zuerlein.

With no timeouts left, Jared Goff completes a pass across the middle to Robert Woods, who is tackled and immediately spots the ball himself. The center grabs the ball and the offense gets in position to snap it. At no point does anyone hand the ball to the referee. In fact, if you blink, you may have missed the referee completely. He zooms into the screen momentarily, lightly taps the top of the football, then scurries out of the way so the Rams can snap the ball and clock it.

Watch:

Contrary to what Tony Romo would like you to believe, the referee does not need to be physically handed the football, they simply need to touch it. Biadasz had the ball in hand, on the turf, with four seconds left on the clock. A competent referee simply needed to run to the line (but not into the quarterback), touch the football, and then get out of the way, allowing it to be snapped and clocked with about one second to spare.

A few things:

1. This is not the reason the Cowboys lost.

2. Asking Dak to run, slide, and clock the ball was still a dumb, and far too risky, play call.

3. This is not a conspiracy against the Cowboys; it's incompetent officiating.

4. Regardless of points 1, 2 & 3, the fact of the matter is the Cowboys absolutely should have gotten the opportunity to run one more play from the 24-yard-line.

Honestly....that ref ought to be fired.....He was screwing us all day on the substitutions...and not allowing us to snap the ball in hurry up (disrupting our offense)...Hell...we even got a penalty because of him...not allowing us to snap the ball...and we got a delay of game.....it wasn't a coincidence. It was BS.

But we will get one of those....so sorry letters from Roger...saying that will never happen again.

 

[America's Cowboy]

We have to go back to the Cowboys' last brutal playoff defeat, in 2019 against the Rams.

In that game, the Rams were driving just before halftime to try and secure a long field goal attempt for a kicker some of you may have heard of, named Greg Zuerlein.

With no timeouts left, Jared Goff completes a pass across the middle to Robert Woods, who is tackled and immediately spots the ball himself. The center grabs the ball and the offense gets in position to snap it. At no point does anyone hand the ball to the referee. In fact, if you blink, you may have missed the referee completely. He zooms into the screen momentarily, lightly taps the top of the football, then scurries out of the way so the Rams can snap the ball and clock it.

Watch:

Contrary to what Tony Romo would like you to believe, the referee does not need to be physically handed the football, they simply need to touch it. Biadasz had the ball in hand, on the turf, with four seconds left on the clock. A competent referee simply needed to run to the line (but not into the quarterback), touch the football, and then get out of the way, allowing it to be snapped and clocked with about one second to spare.

A few things:

1. This is not the reason the Cowboys lost.

2. Asking Dak to run, slide, and clock the ball was still a dumb, and far too risky, play call.

3. This is not a conspiracy against the Cowboys; it's incompetent officiating.

4. Regardless of points 1, 2 & 3, the fact of the matter is the Cowboys absolutely should have gotten the opportunity to run one more play from the 24-yard-line.

Exactly!

This and more misinformed statements during the game is why I've stated that Romo was wrong. It's unbelievable how someone who was our QB for 10+ seasons, broke most franchise records and has been a game broadcaster for 4+ seasons says such things wrongly at times.

 

[Floatyworm]

I don't need any more reason to hate the refs.

But it's true.....they don't like us. Not one bit.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Honestly....that ref ought to be fired.....He was screwing us all day on the substitutions...and not allowing us to snap the ball in hurry up (disrupting our offense)...Hell...we even got a penalty because of him...not allowing us to snap the ball...and we got a delay of game.....it wasn't a coincidence. It was BS.

But we will get one of those....so sorry letters from Roger...saying that will never happen again.

Exactly!!! All game long that particular on-the-field official kept screwing over our Cowboys.

 

[DOUBLE WING]

While Dak was running, he should have just thrown a pass backwards out of bounds near the end of his run. That would have stopped the clock.

Theoretically, the 49ers could have just let Dak slide and not touched him down, thus letting a few more seconds run off the clock and effectively ending the game without the Cowboys even getting to the line to attempt a snap.

It's an interesting play in the sense that yes, the defense was caught off guard. They were not expecting it and didn't quite know how to react. Immediately tackling/touching Dak as he slid was, in hindsight, probably the wrong move. Let him slide - he still has to be touched down.

 

[DOUBLE WING]

Exactly!

This and more misinformed statements during the game is why I've stated that Romo was wrong. It's unbelievable how someone who was our QB for 10+ seasons, broke most franchise records and has been a game broadcaster for 4+ seasons says such things wrongly at times.

It was a strange hill for Tony to die on. So adamant that Dak screwed up by not handing the ball to the referee, as if that is some written-in-stone bylaw.

If I didn't know any better, I would think that perhaps there was some personal vendetta motivating his commentary.

 

[America's Cowboy]

It was a strange hill for Tony to die on. So adamant that Dak screwed up by not handing the ball to the referee, as if that is some written-in-stone bylaw.

If I didn't know any better, I would think that perhaps there was some personal vendetta motivating his commentary.

Of course there is. It's not the first time he has broadcasted a Cowboys game and said wrongful statements towards Dak. He does it all of the time. Clearly, Romo has a personal issue.

 

[zeke21]

I think you can agree that it was a bad job by the official.. I think there was enough time for it to be spiked and have one shot at the end zone... but that doesn't negate the fact it was a woeful call by the Cowboys to run that sequence.

Terrible decision that ultimately went further south.

The game should not have been in doubt.. we had opportunities to win.. and even at the end.. there was enough time for 2 more quick plays.. either a quick throw or hail mary x 2.

The run was NEVER the right play.. never ever and I don't care what analytics say. Never!

 

[DOUBLE WING]

I think you can agree that it was a bad job by the official.. I think there was enough time for it to be spiked and have one shot at the end zone... but that doesn't negate the fact it was a woeful call by the Cowboys to run that sequence.

Terrible decision that ultimately went further south.

The game should not have been in doubt.. we had opportunities to win.. and even at the end.. there was enough time for 2 more quick plays.. either a quick throw or hail mary x 2.

The run was NEVER the right play.. never ever and I don't care what analytics say. Never!

Of course. Dumb decision to call the play in the first place. It leaves far too much to chance.

But regardless of that, they should have been allowed one final play.

 

[Wezsh0T]

We definitely should have had enough time left to run that final play. If the referee does just like the video clip in the original post, we have 1 second left. It would have made sense to add one second to the clock. This could only happen to the Cowboys. Just like how I haven't seen more than one hands to the face penalty called on the defense this year and we had three (I believe). Once again, this could ONLY happen to the Cowboys.

It is maddening that the same referee caused a delay of game after the fake punt. We were ready to snap the ball, but he made us wait to snap the ball. Why does waiting for the defense to make a substitution cause a delay of game on the offense? If that is the rule, then it's not the referee's fault, but it makes no sense to call a penalty on the offense that is caused by the defense.

 

[boysbeyond4ever]

Boo hoo.

Please just stop burying the lede: stupid, undisciplined team plays stupid, undisciplined game.

It's not burying anything. People like you apparently want incompetent inconsistent biased or even corrupt officiating to contnue. And the NFL thanks you for paying its bills in return for letting them stick up where the sun don't shine again.

 

[boysbeyond4ever]

We definitely should have had enough time left to run that final play. If the referee does just like the video clip in the original post, we have 1 second left. It would have made sense to add one second to the clock. This could only happen to the Cowboys. Just like how I haven't seen more than one hands to the face penalty called on the defense this year and we had three (I believe). Once again, this could ONLY happen to the Cowboys.

It is maddening that the same referee caused a delay of game after the fake punt. We were ready to snap the ball, but he made us wait to snap the ball. Why does waiting for the defense to make a substitution cause a delay of game on the offense? If that is the rule, then it's not the referee's fault, but it makes no sense to call a penalty on the offense that is caused by the defense.

The really maddening thing is how he basically blocked us snapping the ball even after he held us up - properly - I might add - to allow San Francisco to make its subs. But instead of stepping away he cuts right across the line where the ball is supposed to be snapped while there was still time to snap it. He made it impossible to avoid the penalty when we could have without risking the ball hitting him and possibly resulting in a game-killing turnover. That cannot be a penalty. I cannot believe the booth in New York didn't see that and couldn't have have buzzed down and said there is no foul for delay of game because of the offic1al making it impossible to snap the ball. Something was very wrong there. And but for that penalty we might finish that drive in the end zone. and guess what , scary as it might have been, it might have been 23-20 with 38 seconds to play, and we would have been in field goal range before that last play. 50-50 shot for sure but I would have been a real shot.

 

[Captain-Crash]

*passes out kleenex's*