70 was the only player who looked like he was making the agreed upon visual signal to indicate reporting as eligible.
Ball couldn’t go to 70, he was covered up and ineligible by alignment. It doesn’t matter if you report eligible if another player
you are incorrect. NFL rules state that the lineman who reports as eligible must align in an eligible position, last player in his line or 1 yard deep in the backfield. 70 was covered up by 2 players and was ineligible to catch a forward pass
Why would you cover an OL who has not been announced as eligible? seriously they cant be thrown to or its illegal touching, so no I'm correct you cover the player the refs announce as eligible because that play can be reviewed and the illegal formation can not... the ref cant announce a player eligible then say after the completed pass "Hey we were kidding it was really this guy" they can miss illegal formations and do and nothing happens.
how could have the lions corrected it after it was announced that #70 was eligible and no mention of #68? the lions didnt have any timeouts. im curious. i believe dan messed up and it doesnt fall all on the refs if not any just curious about this one point.
The only people who knew that the Lions wanted 68 and not 70 eligible were the Lions.
the ref just botched the numbers. They have to tell the ref who is eligible, not use hand gestures. Those gestures were intended to confuse the cowboys not the ref.
Yeah. That’s the ticket. Fire the first coach in 30 years who has won the North division for your team.
I like going for it on 4th and 2.
Why would I be offended by a dumb coach who cost his team the 2 seed. Maybe you should back away from football for a while.
so dan could have informed the ref when everyone hears over the pa that #70 was eligible to correct the mistake and the refs could have stopped the play from happening?
Which is why I think Campbell made his comment about two players reporting. He knew from the officials that Decker had given the verbal signal and Skipper had given the physical one. Allen, though, took it to mean only that Skipper had reported.
As I said, I'm happy with the result. We won and the crew that called a tripping penalty on the wrong team that could have contributed to us losing isn't going to be in the playoffs.
They have to do both. That was the problem. 68 essentially just reported but didn't make much of a hand gesture (to try to hide it from Dallas). Skipper didn't say anything, but made an obvious hand gesture (to make Dallas think he was reporting).
Pride.
