Is there any doubt now that officials are crooked?

[Starstruck22]

It has been 10 games since one of the best pass rushers in the league has been held.

I don't think the league is crooked, the refs just suck and make calls in the trenches randomly.

Making random calls is theft and crooks

 

[calico]

The nfl is becoming unwatchable because of the refs.

 

[Starstruck22]

Refs are human.

Dak got a BS roughing the passer call, the problem is they didn’t take advantage. Every team gets bad calls that go against them or for them. Good teams take advantage. Bad teams don’t then their fans only focus on calls that went against them and cry conspiracy.

Which means they can also be cheats and liars. If they were animals, they are innocent and cannot act immorally.

 

[Starstruck22]

The nfl is becoming unwatchable because of the refs.

They are turning the nfl into world wide wrestling. It is becoming intolerable and there will be many like myself that stop watching because it is rigged.

 

[Starstruck22]

Jerry has the power to fix this. All of these officials have other jobs outside of the NFL...

He could do something like maybe SHOUT TO THE ROOFTOPS THAT MICAH IS GETTING SCREWED!!!!! WHERE IS HIS VOICE????

 

[ElGatoGrande]

The trick to this discussion is to stay on track, don't get dragged into any strawman arguments. There could be no organized conspiracy against a specific team out of malice, the owners wouldn't stand for it, but it's obvious that these officials are not calling these games straight. When you look at the who, when and where these things are happening then patterns reveal themselves and they almost always revolve around money, standings, ratings, home team, etc. Anything that improves their bottom line the owners will tolerate.

As for Micah, that's beyond atrocious. The NFL officials seem to be more and more tolerant with offensive holding, maybe they're compensating for the drought of quality offensive linemen in the NFL?

 

[Blast From The Past]

I see it as well that refs seem to screw us, but why have a conspiracy against the richest most popular team in the world in any sport to keep them from winning? I know Goodell is a Giants fan but still makes no sense.

I hate bring this up but a famous dictator once said "The bigger the lie the more believable it would be" So why not have a conspiracy against the richest most popular team? Seems implausible to the average fan or super die hard fan. That's why.

 

[Eddie]

He could do something like maybe SHOUT TO THE ROOFTOPS THAT MICAH IS GETTING SCREWED!!!!! WHERE IS HIS VOICE????

Dun matter. Jerry is making billions. He doesn't care and doesn't want to rattle the boat.

 

[Starstruck22]

The trick to this discussion is to stay on track, don't get dragged into any strawman arguments. There could be no organized conspiracy against a specific team out of malice, the owners wouldn't stand for it, but it's obvious that these officials are not calling these games straight. When you look at the who, when and where these things are happening then patterns reveal themselves and they almost always revolve around money, standings, ratings, home team, etc. Anything that improves their bottom line the owners will tolerate.

As for Micah, that's beyond atrocious. The NFL officials seem to be more and more tolerant with offensive holding, maybe they're compensating for the drought of quality offensive linemen in the NFL?

You completely destroyed your own argument of no organization yet patterns around this a that. That is called organized corruption. And the lack of holds on Micah when they are called all the time on other pass rushers destroys your argument. It is directed, organized, targeted, and not incompetence. And why is it that on every close call at the marker, Dallas gets screwed, but the opposing team always gets the close call regardless. Watch, listen, and learn. It is the most deceptive, insidious, and ingenious way to screw dallas and no one ever says anything.

 

[Starstruck22]

Dun matter. Jerry is making billions. He doesn't care and doesn't want to rattle the boat.

Exactly. I cant wait till he dies and the Jones family sells. All a bunch of jerks. Everyone hates them.

 

[Nav22]

Jerry has the power to fix this. All of these officials have other jobs outside of the NFL...

No, he doesn't. You think he's the only billionaire owner or something?

 

[Cowboys5217]

1) Spotting the ball close to the first down marker and the most egregious and insidious.

Notice Dallas always gets the short end of the stick close to the marker. The opposing team almost always gets the close call. Very deceptive, very clever.

2) Holding calls on D Line and Parsons. Parsons never gets holding calls no matter how egregious.

3) Holding calls on receivers. This is random at best. Many egregious holds on recievers (removing Cee Dees underwear) are missed.

4) Tackling and holding linebackers (see Clark Miami game). Flat out holds and tackles on linebackers never called.

5) Ticky tack calls mostly on Tyler Smith and barely perceptible.

6) Ghost calls like the one on Parsons for late hit.

7) We can't even look at a opposing QBs while other teams are free to take shots at ours (see Romo 2000% less likely to get a roughing call than Brady or Rodgers.

8) Obscure penalties - Call penalties that haven't been called in 30 years or never at all, but only calls those against Dallas. (RB leading with the helmet, huddle penalties, long snapper false start for slightly moving the ball as they all do, etc).

It is league policy to screw Dallas with the officiating.

 

[Motorola]

Jerry has the power to fix this. All of these officials have other jobs outside of the NFL...

He could do something like maybe SHOUT TO THE ROOFTOPS THAT MICAH IS GETTING SCREWED!!!!! WHERE IS HIS VOICE????

Never at a loss for words or opinion on any other NFL topic...

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

They are turning the nfl into world wide wrestling. It is becoming intolerable and there will be many like myself that stop watching because it is rigged.

Stop posting then and making the rest of us suffer through your empty posturing like you've actually quit watching.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

The nfl is becoming unwatchable because of the refs.

I can 100% agree with that.

 

[Motorola]

Exactly. I cant wait till he dies and the Jones family sells. All a bunch of jerks. Everyone hates them.

The Jones family is not selling the team after the owner passes.
See - the McCaskeys (Halas), the Rooneys, the Hunts, the Davises, the Bidwells, the Maras... families owning the same franchise since the previous century.

 

[Starstruck22]

7) We can't even look at a opposing QBs while other teams are free to take shots at ours (see Romo 2000% less likely to get a roughing call than Brady or Rodgers.

8) Obscure penalties - Call penalties that haven't been called in 30 years or never at all, but only calls those against Dallas. (RB leading with the helmet, huddle penalties, long snapper false start for slightly moving the ball as they all do, etc).

It is league policy to screw Dallas with the officiating.

And i am watching the philly giants game and they call a holding penalty on the tackle blocking the outside rusher that moose johnston said it was not holding and did not look like holding and you cannot get any official in any game at any time to call a hold against Parsons. You cant make this stuff up.

 

[Starstruck22]

And i am watching the philly giants game and they call a holding penalty on the tackle blocking the outside rusher that moose johnston said it was not holding and did not look like holding and you cannot get any official in any game at any time to call a hold against Parsons. You cant make this stuff up.

 

[Starstruck22]

1) Spotting the ball close to the first down marker and the most egregious and insidious.

Notice Dallas always gets the short end of the stick close to the marker. The opposing team almost always gets the close call. Very deceptive, very clever.

2) Holding calls on D Line and Parsons. Parsons never gets holding calls no matter how egregious.

3) Holding calls on receivers. This is random at best. Many egregious holds on recievers (removing Cee Dees underwear) are missed.

4) Tackling and holding linebackers (see Clark Miami game). Flat out holds and tackles on linebackers never called.

5) Ticky tack calls mostly on Tyler Smith and barely perceptible.

6) Ghost calls like the one on Parsons for late hit.

And i am watching the philly giants game and they call a holding penalty on the tackle blocking the outside rusher that moose johnston said it was not holding and did not look like holding and you cannot get any official in any game at any time to call a hold against Parsons when it is egregious and outrageous. This is not incompetence, it is corruption. You cant make this stuff up.

 

[Cowboys5217]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist but they make it really hard. I want to believe the discrepancies in calls are due to human error, but they’re making it really hard.

I can’t remember who posted it and what thread but someone post all the teams since 2000 to have 100+ penalties a year. During those 22 years we had 18 seasons of 100+ penalties.

Very difficult for me to believe we would have penalty problems between 5 head coaches, Campo, Parcells, Phillips, Garrett and now McCarthy. Someone pulled up the data. The data is pretty alarming. IMO a little too alarming for human error.

But to answer your main question. It’s a better story that Dallas retires an aging Tom Brady and then faces their next big bully in the 49ers, which rekindles a long storied rivalry . Good for ratings. Why they don’t rig it so we’re in the Super Bowl? They don’t have to. They make plenty of money without Dallas being involved.

I dug those numbers up, and they also confirm darling team status for both Pittsburgh and Green bay - two teams who a lot of people think get ref calls their way most of the time - and that perception is correct.

The numbers confirm that Dallas is a ref dog and GB and Pittsburgh are ref darlings.

We had 18 of 23 season from 2000-2022 with 100+ penalties (last in the NFL) and ZERO seasons with 80 or less (again, last in the NFL).

Green Bay? Only 11 seasons with 100+ and 4 seasons with 80 or less.

Pittsburgh? Only 10 seasons with 100+ and 3 seasons with 80 or less.

People who try to say their is no conspiracy will claim that the calls even out in the long run. They sure do for ref darlings like Pittsburgh and Green Bay who's numbers are close to each other, but then we get to Dallas and we have numbers that are far too out of the median to be human error, and we have far too large of a sample size with well over 300 games and 2 decades.

Also, this does not take into account the no calls which are just as effective in screwing Dallas as the bad calls.

Then, take into account the history of all time bad calls that have cost Dallas the Ice Bowl, Super Bowl 5, Super Bowl 10, the 1994 NFCCG, and the Dez double standard game (Dez didn't "catch it" while Cobb "did" - both calls were wrong). Dallas should probably have 4 more SB titles to it's name.