408Cowboy
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This is football. Keep your maga crap to yourself.People need to accept that the league is corrupt. Drain the swamp. MAGA!
This is football. Keep your maga crap to yourself.People need to accept that the league is corrupt. Drain the swamp. MAGA!
I had no idea the defense could get a delay of game penalty, unless a player threw the ball down the field after a play.
As if on que..and how many of those have been called in the last 5 years? Dlinemen are changing gaps constantlyThat's the problem. Fans don't know the rules. Just like with the Dez no-catch. When something happens, they go straight into outrage meltdown mode instead of the rulebook and then are too emotional to come back and actually read. Here are the other delay of game penalties and even this isn't an exhaustive list. (d) is the one that applied here, obviously.
ARTICLE 5. OTHER DELAY OF GAME FOULS. Other examples of action or inaction that are to be construed as delay of the game include, but are not limited to:
(a) a player unnecessarily remains on a dead ball or on a runner who has been downed;
(b) the snapper repeatedly snaps the ball after the neutral zone is established and before all the officials have had a reasonable time to assume their positions (see 7-6-3-c);
(c) undue delay by either team in assembling after a timeout;
(d) a defensive player aligned in a stationary position within one yard of the line of scrimmage makes quick and abrupt actions that are not a part of normal defensive player movement and are an obvious attempt to cause an offensive player(s) to foul (false start). (The officials shall blow their whistles immediately.) If the defender is walking or running toward the line of scrimmage in an effort to time the snap, but stops abruptly because the snap is not made, it is not a foul for delay of game;
(e) spiking or throwing the ball in the field of play after a down has ended, except after a score;
(f) intentional contact with the football to delay the snap or the officials’ ability to make the ball ready for play; or
(g) when a timeout is erroneously granted. See 4-5-1-Note for enforcement.
Why call that delay of game? The NFL has some dumb rules.That's the problem. Fans don't know the rules. Just like with the Dez no-catch. When something happens, they go straight into outrage meltdown mode instead of the rulebook and then are too emotional to come back and actually read. Here are the other delay of game penalties and even this isn't an exhaustive list. (d) is the one that applied here, obviously.
ARTICLE 5. OTHER DELAY OF GAME FOULS. Other examples of action or inaction that are to be construed as delay of the game include, but are not limited to:
(a) a player unnecessarily remains on a dead ball or on a runner who has been downed;
(b) the snapper repeatedly snaps the ball after the neutral zone is established and before all the officials have had a reasonable time to assume their positions (see 7-6-3-c);
(c) undue delay by either team in assembling after a timeout;
(d) a defensive player aligned in a stationary position within one yard of the line of scrimmage makes quick and abrupt actions that are not a part of normal defensive player movement and are an obvious attempt to cause an offensive player(s) to foul (false start). (The officials shall blow their whistles immediately.) If the defender is walking or running toward the line of scrimmage in an effort to time the snap, but stops abruptly because the snap is not made, it is not a foul for delay of game;
(e) spiking or throwing the ball in the field of play after a down has ended, except after a score;
(f) intentional contact with the football to delay the snap or the officials’ ability to make the ball ready for play; or
(g) when a timeout is erroneously granted. See 4-5-1-Note for enforcement.
I was yelling at my wife and her sister that in 40yrs of watching football I don't think I have ever seen a call like that.The league office should be required to release a formal statement analyzing why that call was right or wrong when calls like that go. How in the world do you call Lawrence for a delay when all he was doing was pointing at the TE who moved when Lawrence shifted inside?
I want to see them try to defend that call.
As if on que..and how many of those have been called in the last 5 years? Dlinemen are changing gaps constantly
Why call that delay of game? The NFL has some dumb rules.
I look forward to whatever else the NFL can think of in two weeks.
I would say it was a movement not needing a flagIt's not about changing gaps, it's about abrupt movement causing the offensive line to move. Was what Lawrence did abrupt or not?
I would say it was a movement not needing a flag
I don’t believe the calls are necessarily indicative of systematic bias against the Cowboys. It’s just poor officiating league-wide.
The whole league has become a joke due to sorry refs. College refs would be a huge upgrade of these nimrods.
You know you're in other posters' heads when .... lol.
Here is what I posted in the other thread on this play.
Let's talk the DLaw play and since no one ever does this. Like ever. Let's look at the actual rule. It's clear Troy and Joe Buck had no idea what the rule was. I respect Pereira but think he missed a small detail that might have influenced the call. Notice the underlining (emphasis mine).
RULE 4, SECTION 6
ARTICLE 5. OTHER DELAY OF GAME FOULS. Other examples of action or inaction that are to be construed as delay of the game include, but are not limited to:
(d) a defensive player aligned in a stationary position within one yard of the line of scrimmage makes quick and abrupt actions that are not a part of normal defensive player movement and are an obvious attempt to cause an offensive player(s) to foul (false start). (The officials shall blow their whistles immediately.) If the defender is walking or running toward the line of scrimmage in an effort to time the snap, but stops abruptly because the snap is not made, it is not a foul for delay of game;
First the play real speed with the clocks. Lawrence is clearly not set for his rush (and appears to be watching the play clock) and then right around 1 to go and Winston getting under Center, does a jerky-type move to move inside causing the TE to move.
Here is what I think Pereira missed. Notice how when Lawrence made his move with his head first looking right, he does a head fake left as he jerks over to the right. Who does that if they're simply changing gaps? I get "hopping" over to get your feet set but why the head fake, and right at 1 on the play clock? Could the officials have seen that as an obvious "quick and abrupt action?"
Of course no one agrees because we're always the victim but I am giving an honest assessment at what officials might have been looking at. Videos are posted. The hate will ensue. But can people for once just debate the video instead of the usual diversion tactics?
I think the penalty wasn’t the “point”, it was that DLaw shifted causing the TB player to move. So, it was the fault of the Dallas player that the Tampa player loved, Dallas penalty
Biggest crock of kaka I have ever seen. This game was amongst the worst officiated that I have ever witnessed
Playclock=0(zeeeeeeeerooooo)
triggeredThis is football. Keep your maga crap to yourself.
Except, even Mike bloody Pereira said it was a rubbish call, and he's the rules expert on Fox. He's allowed to slide a bit on the line to get a better matchup, and he's perfectly right to point to the play clock when it's at nil. How many players point at each other or the clock when they see movement or the clock at nil? Sorry mate, but this one, I think you're dead wrong.