The majority of responses in this thread are a perfect demonstration of why conspiracy theorists aren’t really concerned about poor officiating, but rather just those calls (or missed calls) that don’t benefit the Cowboys.
If your response to the missed helmet-to-hemet is “well, what about this missed call....” or “well it makes up for this call against the Cowboys” you lose all credibility and show your own agenda driven bias.
The issue last night was poor officiating ALL AROUND. I can guarantee you right now your counterparts on SaintsZone are having these same type complaints about the league trying to supposedly screw them.
This is why you have so much anger towards these discussions—because you fundamentally do not understand the conversation.
When we talk about unique and rare calls and wonder if they are possibly a result of referee bias. It is because the calls are one sided and there aren’t opposing calls that are similar.
In this thread the illegal hit and correct PI call are in question and they both benefited the Cowboys. As others have pointed out there were missed calls that clearly benefited the Saints and were less or equally as controversial at best. They were the the off sides, the no call push off, and the very clear facemask on Dak.
In our “CONSPIRACY THEORY” threads(which again for the 33rd time are simply discussions about possible ref bias that you are in no way are obligated to participate in)we talk about rare and unmatched calls like: long streaks of no holds, 5 of the 30 no penalty games for the opposition since 2000, illegal procedure on a long snapper, illegal subsitution and leading the league in penalties that result in ending drives.
We ask for examples of equal or similar calls that balance out the calls for the game thus making the calls more balanced or some may say fair. We don’t get that.
In this thread we are providing those examples that imo show the Cowboys were not the beneficiaries of “the calls”. Which, again, is ironically what we ask for when we’re told the calls aren’t unique to our team.
I am sorry this discussion bothers you, but I feel it’s reasonable and I’ll continue to participate in them.
Many thanks for your cooperation.