Was that the right call at the end?

[CanadianCowboysFan]

And the media could shut all of this down by saying exactly your succinct statement…..but they won’t.

Now the ref in the booth of Troy said it was 3 penalties all in one play.

he did

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Where’s our conspiracy crew?

Boys swallowed their tongues apparently.

Or is all this just part of the plan?

no conspiracy when it was an actual penalty

 

[mahoneybill]

Well, Lamb also gifted them a safety on a would be touchdown.

And another in the line of how many times will you see that happen in any game.

 

[lostar2009]

Dan Campbell is like a kid playing Madden. Going for it on 4th all the time, and of course he was going for 2 down 1 and not only that tried to outsmart us but instead outsmarted his own team.

Were we fortunate? Yes, but so were other teams many times when we screwed up at the end. A win is a win.

Tbh Dallas should've put this game to rest at half time.

 

[Chasing6]

Sure looked to me like the WR was off the LOS.

Had nothing to do with the WR.

70 was covered up by 58.

 

[KMY_Amber]

I’m sure the lions are saying the same thing after blowing that play call. And throwing two picks.

...which is why it's likely that neither of these teams make a Superbowl appearance. It will be hard for both to overcome questionable coaching and untimely mistakes.

 

[KMY_Amber]

Sure looked to me like the WR was off the LOS.

You may be right, he was likely off...the illegal formation may have been on the other side of the line with the extra lineman that reported

 

[krs1bro]

Detroit and all analyst are cry babys.... reverse this with DC and it would be a different story .....nuff said. Cry baby's.

 

[Cowboys1966]

Wait, I thought there was a league wide referees conspiracy to screw the cowboys?

 

[Chasing6]

In Dan Cambell's press conference he says 2 people can not report. Why was 70 running up to the referee?

It is obvious that Dan wanted 68 reported as illegible. If he was not reported, then it is an illegal formation, because he was not covered.

70 was announced and he was covered by 58, which is also an illegal formation.

Sounds like the lineman and the referees mis communicated. Lions got too cute sending 3 lineman to the Ref.

 

[Floatyworm]

Some people saying the formation was legal

It was....

 

[Chasing6]

It was....

It was illegal in 2 different ways.

 

[Floatyworm]

They seem to be but it was their own stupidity.

No it wasn't....it was the refs fault. Don't buy the NFL back peddling. This was the same dope that botched the Chiefs/Dolphins fiasco.

 

[Floatyworm]

Schefter seems pissed.

This league is such a mess with its officials. Its a disgrace...

 

[Chasing6]

No it wasn't....it was the refs fault. Don't buy the NFL back peddling. This was the same dope that botched the Chiefs/Dolphins fiasco.

100% not the refs fault. You can not have 2 eligible WR's. Dan did not know the rules.

 

[Chasing6]

No it wasn't....it was the refs fault. Don't buy the NFL back peddling. This was the same dope that botched the Chiefs/Dolphins fiasco.

No it was Dan's fault for not knowing the rules. You can not have 2 eligible WR's.

Dan outsmarted himself.

 

[Hoofbite]

Whole thing just underscores that nobody knows what the rules are. ESPN, NFL, etc. You had multiple mentioned penalties during the broadcast and then postgame barely talked about them.

Ryan Clark did a good breakdown and didn’t mention much other than the wrong player being designated as eligible.

Basically the NFL and all the experts know little more than people posting here. Lots of various takes but it seems like a fundamental screw up by the official for declaring the wrong guy eligible.

 

[Roadtrip635]

He explained it "Pre-Game" doesn't mean his players executed it to a "tee" during the game.

 

[ConstantReboot]

The ref clearly was looking at #70 as he was going in and do did the entire defense. Which means that the ref was focused on only #70.

It's up to #68 to get the refs attention that this was a trick play and that he was reporting. He failed at that. Thus I don't see why the Lions are crying. They should be blaming themselves for their bad communication skills.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Whole thing just underscores that nobody knows what the rules are. ESPN, NFL, etc. You had multiple mentioned penalties during the broadcast and then postgame barely talked about them.

Ryan Clark did a good breakdown and didn’t mention much other than the wrong player being designated as eligible.

Basically the NFL and all the experts know little more than people posting here. Lots of various takes but it seems like a fundamental screw up by the official for declaring the wrong guy eligible.

If the ref screwed up why was he looking entirely at #70? #68 was closer to the ref and yet didn't get the ref's attention. It seems that #68 didn't speak loud enough or even tried to attempt to communicate the play to the ref. Either way, it was still not called out in the speakers and #70 was. Detroit had all the time in the world to call time and fix the situation.