Is there any doubt now that officials are crooked?

[catiii]

That's almost 2% of the diameter!!!

You don't think TheGreatCowboysBamaLakerFan could detect a 2% curve gradient of the horizon?

OF COURSE HE COULD!!!!

THIS IS ALL A CONSPIRACY....BETWEEN THE GUB'MENT, THE ILLUMINATI.....and, of course....THE REFS

Don't forget AMBER!! She's a reptilian. @Reverend Conehead

 

[catiii]

The 31 other fanbases love to see Dallas lose.

More accurately, I think they enjoy seeing Jerry Jones lose. I don't think it's about the team so much.

 

[Carson]

Micah Parsons is held all throughout every game. Rarely is it called. The roughing passer call. I did not see the game. Was it valid?

No it was not valid at all

 

[1942willys]

I do not think they are crooked
just very incompetent and with the rules changing every season and this so called EMPHASIS on certain ones....

 

[vig454]

I wonder if this conspiracy caused Dak to panic and not produce. This is the thing with Dak , he looks so good with mediocre teams that we start believing he's that good . But year after year he's proven that he can't deliver in tough competition. Not once has he impressed against a high caliber team. Yes , the refs suck but good teams overcome those biased officials.

 

[morat1959]

That is so naive. do you believe in the Easter Bunny as well?

Are you 15?

 

[DripTooHard]

I wonder if this conspiracy caused Dak to panic and not produce. This is the thing with Dak , he looks so good with mediocre teams that we start believing he's that good . But year after year he's proven that he can't deliver in tough competition. Not once has he impressed against a high caliber team. Yes , the refs suck but good teams overcome those biased officials.

How can you overcome bad officiating? Some of the calls and non calls are just back breakers.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I do not think they are crooked
just very incompetent and with the rules changing every season and this so called EMPHASIS on certain ones....

I agree with you. This game is very fast. It's easy to see how an official could get a call wrong, especially a penalty or non-penalty since the ref is not allowed to use replay to help with accuracy. The league should allow penalties and non-penalties to be challenged.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

How can you overcome bad officiating? Some of the calls and non calls are just back breakers.

Allowing a challenge of a bad call would help.

 

[morat1959]

And conforming puppets adhere to their zebra masters. We can't help you if you're a lamb. People who get screwed whine about officiating. That's who whines about it. What makes you think you're a "winner" ?

Because after many years of playing and coaching multiple sports, I never whined about the officials. You win some, you lose some. Were you first or second chair in the band?

 

[Pola_pe_a]

It does no have to make sense. It is happening and inexplicable except for directed corruption from the top. Blatant missed calls and ghost calls. How do you we explain all of this.

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.

 

[DripTooHard]

I agree with you. This game is very fast. It's easy to see how an official could get a call wrong, especially a penalty or non-penalty since the ref is not allowed to use replay to help with accuracy. The league should allow penalties and non-penalties to be challenged.

They are challenging them and calling them on the fly. These guys have tons of help from a command center in New York with radio communications to on field refs. Refs started wearing ear buds in 2014.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Dumbest fanbase in sports.

BARNONE.

 

[DripTooHard]

I’ll just leave this here. These guys have full view of each play and radio contact at all times with on field officials.

 

[rambo2]

The officials are told how to officiate. It looks like the only holding they are looking to call is when the qb runs to the outside of the pocket. Evidently, you can tackle a linebacker on a running play and you can hold dominant pass rushers.

 

[ThatJerryKid]

Tell your friend that a player can’t land on the QB with all his weight. When the Dolphin pulled his hands up in the air that meant all his weight landed on Prescott. That is a point of emphasis and will be called always.

Had he put his hands out to stop his weight some he wouldn’t be called for it. Parsons shoved Tua in his back a split second after the bal left his hand. Tell your friend about that and how that’s what a bad call looks like really.

Disagree on the Dolphins roughing the passer call. Prescott clearly grabbed the defenders helmet and pulled him down to get the call. I agree with you that the refs are terrible this year. But it goes both ways on all teams and anybody that says otherwise lives in a vacuum when it comes to their favorite team.

 

[RonnieT24]

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.

Goodell grew up in a house with Ratscum season tickets.. But I have explained the bias against the Cowboys many times. It has nothing to do with conspiracy and everything to do with jealousy. The majority of NFL referees and front office types grew up watching the Cowboys on TV every Sunday beating up on their favorite team. To add insult to injury they had the networks marketing the Cowboys as "America's Team." That infuriated people enough but in 1995 Jerry Jones sued the NFL over naming rights and sponsorship deals and even though it was settled out of court, given that every team in the league has followed Jerry's model, I think we can safely say Jerry won that battle. The NFL's chief counsel at that time was none other than Roger Goodell.. who you might recognize as the current commissioner. Goodell has never forgiven Jerry and his lawyers for that butt whuppin nor for the butt whuppins the Cowboys put on his favorite team when he was a boy. A LOT of NFL refs are in a similar boat. Even if they all TRY to be unbiased that 10 year old boy who watched the Cowboys boat race his favorite team is still there inside all of them. Throw in that even now, 30 years removed from their last championship the Cowboys are STILL far and away the most popular, most talked about, most intensely covered team in the land it drives that 10 year old boy absolutely bonkers. So no the Cowboys are not going to catch a log of breaks from the Zebras.. and they are never going to be good enough to beat another good team AND the Zebras. Because that team doesn't exist. People continually claim it's a "conspiracy theory." I say BS. Many things we see every day happen without anybody conspiring to make it happen. 120 million Americans will tune into the Super Bowl at precisely the same time.. When was the secret meeting held to make that happen? The fact of the matter is this franchise has won its last championship in our lifetimes. The playing field has been tilted against it for 30 years and it's not likely to change any time soon.

 

[MS17]

I know a lot of people who have stopped watching. As for myself, it's difficult since I played the game for years and have enjoyed playing and watching. So it pains me to see or think that something so loved could ever be corrupted.

The owners hired Roger G. to make money and the NFL is an entertainment business. To think the human factor/TV ratings and gambling hasn't effected the integrity of the league is well...The real hope and dream.

I keep watching because I want to believe everyone is on the up and up and we'll see a fair contest of skill, like games I played in and watched in the earlier years. I have to admit, it is getting harder.

So that is why I keep watching the games Beast, still hoping and praying it can get back to that thing I enjoyed so much in my youth.

I keep watching too. like a bad habit, I guess.
And the owners did instruct Goodell to make sure the TV model makes money for them, and entertain at the same time. "Brought to you by Peacock Network!!"
I'd really like to know the average commercial advertisement minutes/ads that are run in game broadcasts now as compared to several years ago. My guess is that advertising during games has increased. I dont recall in past seasons how frequently games cut away to commercials the moment an injury caused a game stoppage. "We'll be right back after this message.", announcers sheepishly tell viewers when a player's down, training staff runs out. Replays? the same. (More commercials = $$ for the owners) .
Don't blame the sponsors and GM trucks, Verizon, Taco Bell, Coors et al. The owners are complicit. A few years ago, NFL approved continuous clock runs with runners out of bounds, after sacks, (to squeeze in more advertising minutes?) so as "to shorten length of games." Yeah. Sure.
I know, this isn't topical. OK.

 

[RonnieT24]

If the fix was in why would the refs call 3 PIs on Miami on Dallas final drive? 2 of them on incomplete 4th down passes?

They were clear and obvious.. not that that ever stopped the refs before and had they NOT been committed the Cowboys score sooner.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

They are challenging them and calling them on the fly. These guys have tons of help from a command center in New York with radio communications to on field refs. Refs started wearing ear buds in 2014.

But you're still not allowed to challenge a bad call. The game is really fast. If the system doesn't override the bad call, a coach should be allowed to throw his red flag and get it looked at with more time.