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

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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:

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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.
 

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Exactly the issue is that there was a lot of poor inconsistent officiating yesterday, and has been all year, that has allowed the officials to play an outsized role in the outcomes of too many games, and certainly not just Cowboy games though I have no problem saying that when affects the Cowboys I notice it more and am even more disgusted by it.
The league doesn't care. Referees and their gaffes are becoming more and more important in a lot of games. Many of the issues are easily solvable but the fact that there is no real desire to fix it tells me they do not care. The money is rolling in. Bad calls deciding games keep the league on the front of social media platforms. Fantasy football is bigger than ever. Everything will continue to be skewed to stats and stars for the $$$. That's the state of the league.
 

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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:

RAMSCOWBOYS-2.gif



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.
It was a horrible play call, who runs a QB sneak in the middle of the field with NO timeouts and seconds left in the game?????? Who, the Cowboys do, Ha-haaaaaaaaa
 

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Dak started his slide at the 27, the ball should have been moved back there instead of being spotted at the 24...The ref did us a favor

This is a truthful post that of course got ignored but it's spot on. I estimated the 26 myself so if the ref was doing his job correctly, he should have spotted the ball backwards 2 more yards which would have used clock anyways when everyone backed up. You even see the Line Judge at the top of the screen on the sideline at 0:10, showing the spot to be on the other side of the 25 and then hops forward 1+ yard after the spotting official puts it at about the 24. All I ever hear is that folks want a fairly called game. Fairly-called would have had the time expire anyway. But that don't sell to people who need to believe they were robbed.

 

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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:

RAMSCOWBOYS-2.gif



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.
It still took 9 seconds.
 

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A portion of the board along with our front office, coach snd QB are whiners who basically cry and make excuses. FACT

The fact is Dak and the line blocked the guy out even when he was supposed to touch it…on top of a dumb play
 

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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:

RAMSCOWBOYS-2.gif



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.
This is not an issue to me. The Cowboys should never be in that position.
 

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It should of never came to that being the final play of the season.
They had their chances to score on the previous drive.
 

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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.

True but do you think my idea of throwing it out of bounds backwards would have worked? I don't think there is any rule against that.
 

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True but do you think my idea of throwing it out of bounds backwards would have worked? I don't think there is any rule against that.

You would have to double check the NFL rules but my gut feeling is that likely would be a penalty and possibly a 10 second runoff.
 

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No...I do not support your point.

You said the player can't spot. That's fine...but if he does...it doesn't mean it's incorrect.

Looked to me like the ref moved the ball just because. Just because the player spotted it and by GOD we're aren't having that MOVE THE BALL BACK! and Take more time off the clock.

I don't know if it was or wasn;t right....I don't like the ref moving it just...because. He never looked to the sideline or anything just moved it because.

Oh, okay, smh.

The ref didn’t just move the ball “just because.” He moved it because it was incorrectly spotted by Biadasz. The yellow arrow shows where Biadasz tried to spot it.

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But please, please continue with the “we wuuuzz robbbed!!” lamenting to help you sleep.
 

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It should of never came to that being the final play of the season.
They had their chances to score on the previous drive.


That's tricky. Moore ****ed everything up by not taking advantage of the time on the lock and using the run on first down after the pass to Schultz. Punt there and we've got them pinned deep with three timeouts, and we stop them then we get the ball 20-40 yards further upfield than we did.

The issue isn't whether that was the right call, or whether we'd have scored at all either if we had another second or just threw deep once or twice, or we even deserved a chance to be that close. It's whether the officials did their roles properly on that play?

It just shoukdn't sit right with any Cowboy fan how poor an effort to follow and catch up to the play was made there, or how the same offical killed out momentum on another potential TD drive by remaining in the way of our snapping the ball well after the Niners had made their substitutions, then cut directly in front of where the ball could be snapped ensuring a key delay of game penalty that could have been avoided had the Umpire moved at different angle.
 

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Oh, okay, smh.

The ref didn’t just move the ball “just because.” He moved it because it was incorrectly spotted by Biadasz. The yellow arrow shows where Biadasz tried to spot it.



But please, please continue with the “we wuuuzz robbbed!!” lamenting to help you sleep.

Trust me it doesn't help anyone sleep.I finally got sleep just before 6:30 today.

Buty if accepting getting it jammed where the sun don't shine and saying thanks everybody helps you sleep better well, I'd rather be up till 6:30 than be like that.
 

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Oh, okay, smh.

The ref didn’t just move the ball “just because.” He moved it because it was incorrectly spotted by Biadasz. The yellow arrow shows where Biadasz tried to spot it.



But please, please continue with the “we wuuuzz robbbed!!” lamenting to help you sleep.


thank you for the super size pic.

I wasn't necessarily saying THIS play. Just in general.

I never said "we was robbed".

Now....you didn;t ask me what I thought of it...but since you made up something in your head..I will correct you. Listen up...

I thought it was not a very good play, but since it was called...it was POORLY executed. Just goes to show we're not a disciplined team. Ceedee waltzing back to the line shows you.

Although we had a chance to win.....We lost the game LONG before this play. The penalties, lack of run commitment, and Dak's erratic throwing are unacceptable. And I want Moore fired.

There..I hope this clears up my opinion on this matter.
 
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