How the Dez Bryant no-catch call changed the NFL forever

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Since we just played Green Bay, How the Dez Bryant no-catch call changed the NFL forever. Is this the Biggest Cowboys game being done wrong since 2000???​


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34997228/how-dez-bryant-no-catch-changed-nfl-forever

WE ALL SAW IT. It happened right before our very eyes.

Fifty-two point three million of us watched it live on television. Untold millions have watched it since, in its YouTube afterlife. And to watch it once is to watch it many times, almost by definition -- nobody even had the chance to watch it just once, since the replays started rolling as soon as the ball was whistled dead. The play itself took about seven seconds, snap to signal. The ensuing deliberation took another four minutes, give or take, and the controversy the play generated has lasted for nearly eight years and counting.

It was a catch, of course. It was ruled a catch on the field at 3:58:43 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2015, and it remained a catch until 4:02:29, when the referee announced the reversal by the letter of the law. Then three years later, it became a catch again, when the NFL changed the rules to accommodate its brilliance. Now every time we watch an NFL game we witness some aspect of its legacy, because one of the greatest catches in the history of the game was ruled, "after review," incomplete.

There have been other catches that have, in the space of a few seconds, caused football empires to rise and fall. Bradshaw-Swann, 1976; Montana-Clark, 1982; Manning-Tyree, 2008; Roethlisberger-Holmes, 2009; Brady-Edelman 2017: these are catches that have changed games, careers, fortunes and lives. But they all counted. The pass that Tony Romo threw to Dez Bryant in a playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in 2015 -- or, in its enduring social media afterlife, #DezCaughtIt -- did not, and yet it has changed the way we watch football.

I bring this up because of all blaming Jerry including from me or the coaches, etc. But feel the Cowboys were really ripped off in this game....
 
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It was one thing to rip us off with Dez. It was another to rule Cobb "caught it" in the first half when he clearly trapped it.

The reason it lives on in infamy was because that game made many people, including a lot of Cowboys haters, think that the game is rigged (not scripted).

The obvious double standards on the Cobb and Dez plays is just too glaring.
 

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Obviously a catch. Dez is also a lefty. Caught it, had it on his non dominant side, moved it to his dominant side to reach out for the end zone. One of the worst calls ever.

Romo played a near perfect game.

Still, our defense was getting destroyed in this game as it always does in the playoffs and I have no doubt that Jason Garrett would have made sure the defense rushed three and sat in zone and Rodgers would have gone down and scored.
 
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Cowboys5217 said:
It was one thing to rip us off with Dez. It was another to rule Cobb "caught it" in the first half when he clearly trapped it.

The reason it lives on in infamy was because that game made many people, including a lot of Cowboys haters, think that the game is rigged (not scripted).

The obvious double standards on the Cobb and Dez plays is just too glaring.
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There was no ruling when Cobb clearly dropped the pass on 3rd down…because it was never reviewed, and the 1st down allowed them to go down and score before half…it’s a play in that game that is never talked about, and wasn’t on the telecast at the time.
 
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The more i look into that play it wouldnt even matter. We would have scored with 4 minutes left to go in the game. And our defense was getting manhandled that game. Hence y we never even saw the ball again.
 
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Ben7 said:

Since we just played Green Bay, How the Dez Bryant no-catch call changed the NFL forever. Is this the Biggest Cowboys game being done wrong since 2000???​


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34997228/how-dez-bryant-no-catch-changed-nfl-forever

WE ALL SAW IT. It happened right before our very eyes.

Fifty-two point three million of us watched it live on television. Untold millions have watched it since, in its YouTube afterlife. And to watch it once is to watch it many times, almost by definition -- nobody even had the chance to watch it just once, since the replays started rolling as soon as the ball was whistled dead. The play itself took about seven seconds, snap to signal. The ensuing deliberation took another four minutes, give or take, and the controversy the play generated has lasted for nearly eight years and counting.

It was a catch, of course. It was ruled a catch on the field at 3:58:43 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2015, and it remained a catch until 4:02:29, when the referee announced the reversal by the letter of the law. Then three years later, it became a catch again, when the NFL changed the rules to accommodate its brilliance. Now every time we watch an NFL game we witness some aspect of its legacy, because one of the greatest catches in the history of the game was ruled, "after review," incomplete.

There have been other catches that have, in the space of a few seconds, caused football empires to rise and fall. Bradshaw-Swann, 1976; Montana-Clark, 1982; Manning-Tyree, 2008; Roethlisberger-Holmes, 2009; Brady-Edelman 2017: these are catches that have changed games, careers, fortunes and lives. But they all counted. The pass that Tony Romo threw to Dez Bryant in a playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in 2015 -- or, in its enduring social media afterlife, #DezCaughtIt -- did not, and yet it has changed the way we watch football.

I bring this up because of all blaming Jerry including from me or the coaches, etc. But feel the Cowboys were really ripped off in this game....
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Everything the Cowboys do changes the NFL forever.
 
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Ben7 said:
when the referee announced the reversal by the letter of the law.
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Hard to claim "ripped off" when the article itself admits it wasn't a catch by the rules at the time (conveniently tucked away). Or never mentions that this was always "the Calvin Johnson rule" or that the failed Pittsburgh TE catch years later is what prompted the NFL to adjust the rule. That might turn off the targeted largest fanbase though. I guess this is needed after another failure and from all the failures that have happened since then.
 

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Ben7 said:

Since we just played Green Bay, How the Dez Bryant no-catch call changed the NFL forever. Is this the Biggest Cowboys game being done wrong since 2000???​


https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34997228/how-dez-bryant-no-catch-changed-nfl-forever

WE ALL SAW IT. It happened right before our very eyes.

Fifty-two point three million of us watched it live on television. Untold millions have watched it since, in its YouTube afterlife. And to watch it once is to watch it many times, almost by definition -- nobody even had the chance to watch it just once, since the replays started rolling as soon as the ball was whistled dead. The play itself took about seven seconds, snap to signal. The ensuing deliberation took another four minutes, give or take, and the controversy the play generated has lasted for nearly eight years and counting.

It was a catch, of course. It was ruled a catch on the field at 3:58:43 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2015, and it remained a catch until 4:02:29, when the referee announced the reversal by the letter of the law. Then three years later, it became a catch again, when the NFL changed the rules to accommodate its brilliance. Now every time we watch an NFL game we witness some aspect of its legacy, because one of the greatest catches in the history of the game was ruled, "after review," incomplete.

There have been other catches that have, in the space of a few seconds, caused football empires to rise and fall. Bradshaw-Swann, 1976; Montana-Clark, 1982; Manning-Tyree, 2008; Roethlisberger-Holmes, 2009; Brady-Edelman 2017: these are catches that have changed games, careers, fortunes and lives. But they all counted. The pass that Tony Romo threw to Dez Bryant in a playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers in 2015 -- or, in its enduring social media afterlife, #DezCaughtIt -- did not, and yet it has changed the way we watch football.

I bring this up because of all blaming Jerry including from me or the coaches, etc. But feel the Cowboys were really ripped off in this game....
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I hate to say it but the more I saw that play last week, I don’t think Dez caught it. After rewatching that game why didn’t Garrett target Dez more. The Packers had no one who could cover him. :huh:
 
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The fact that Cowboys fans continue to hold on to that moment at the pivotal moment that altered the next 10 years of Cowboy history is just sad to me.

I mean even after the Dez catch/no catch moment, there were still, what 4+ minutes left in the game? People act like it was the last play of the game or something.
 
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