DMN Blog: Officials breakdown for raiders cowboys game

[cowboyjoe]

Officials breakdown
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Carl Cheffers' crew will work Thursday's game between the Cowboys and Oakland at Cowboys Stadium. This will be Cheffers' first Dallas game he has worked since at least 2001.

The crew worked the Pittsburgh-Kansas City game last week at Arrowhead Stadium and called 13 penaltiers and 12 were accepted. The Steelers were penalized eight times for 85 yards and the Chiefs were penalized four times for 28 yards.

Normally one of the most-penalized teams in the league, Oakland has been flagged 60 times for 444 yards. The Cowboys are the second-most penalized team with 77. Green Bay is the leader at 80.

Here's the breakdown from last week's game:

Offensive holding - 6
False start - 2
Illegal shift - 1
Unnecessary roughness - 1
Face mask - 1
Illegal block above the waist - 1
Illegal contact - 1

Quarter-by-quarter breakdown:

First - 3
Second - 3
Third - 2
Fourth - 4
Overtime - 1

 

[coblue]

short week, some motivated players and a crew that not shy about calling fouls - might be a game with not much rhythm due to penalties

that would favor the Raiders

 

[tomson75]

short week, some motivated players and a crew that not shy about calling fouls - might be a game with not much rhythm due to penalties

that would favor the Raiders

Agreed.

Seems to be a trend with us lately.

 

[speedkilz88]

Thirteen total called penalties last week doesn't sound like they call very many penalties to me. Maybe I've just seen too many Cowboys games where they call double digits on just the Cowboys.

 

[DanTanna]

I would take 13 total penalties any day. Hopefully that happens t-Day.