Lombardi: NFL admits call against Butler was wrong

[ActualCowboysFan]

Now there's this coming out.


They must have took a whole lot of heat in the last hour and are in *** covering mode.

MAY is the key word that they keep leaving off.

 

[DejectedFan1996]

I'm confused. First it "wasn't the right call." Now an hour later, it is the right call?

 

[Sarge]

The quality of the refereeing in the NFL is at an all time low and needs to be addressed like yesterday. It's not in the fans heads, every single week the NFL admits to a botched call. It's actually quite pathetic.

 

[crazytown41]

What a joke

 

[lukin2006]

They seriously need to either have an official from the NFL in a booth to overrule these ludicrous calls or allow 1 coaches challenge per half...and the NFL also needs to seriously look at the rules and get the dumb ones off the books.

 

[KJJ]

All the games you mentioned are not clear cut results, they are what-ifs. The point is, NFL fans are tired of games that end with what-ifs. There's a difference between an honest mistake and intentional malicious judgements, which Dez's catch and Butler's phantom call both were.

There wasn't anything malicious about either call. The call on Sunday was a mistake that put a negative spotlight on the officiating CREW and the Dez non catch was the correct call under the RULE and the league CONFIRMED it was the correct call. Instead of always complaining about the officiating, complain about our defense.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

The NFL needs to hire refs all year long and make them learn their craft during the offseason.

 

[AzorAhai]

MAY is the key word that they keep leaving off.

I have the full section of the rule posted in the other thread. It doesn't make them look good no matter which section they selectively choose from.

 

[Scotman]

22 years of this crap, kudos to you other diehards that have been through more. I saw one SB win, been waiting since. It's wearing me down, but jj knows I'm going to keep fallowing this team.

That's the problem. We've spent too much of the post-seasons fallow the last 20 years.

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

They seriously need to either have an official from the NFL in a booth to overrule these ludicrous calls or allow 1 coaches challenge per half...and the NFL also needs to seriously look at the rules and get the dumb ones off the books.

For some reason they had an extra head referee chilling with McCarthy on Sunday.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

There wasn't anything malicious about either call. The call on Sunday was a mistake that put a negative spotlight on the officiating CREW and the Dez non catch was the correct call under the RULE and the league CONFIRMED it was the correct call. Instead of always complaining about the officiating, complain about our defense.

The officiating is far worse then our defense so I get his complaints there.

 

[T-RO]

I'm confused. First it "wasn't the right call." Now an hour later, it is the right call?

The message the league sent out to teams was apparently not intended for public consumption. It leaked out.

The league PR department is spouting a different message for the public. It's just further validation of the corruption at the heart of the league.

 

[mldardy]

Now there's this coming out.


They must have took a whole lot of heat in the last hour and are in *** covering mode.

Yeah this is some bs cover up for a blown call. The NFL will never officially admit this especially in a playoff game. Lombardi got it right and the NFL will never admit though.

 

[rational1]

There wasn't anything malicious about either call. The call on Sunday was a mistake that put a negative spotlight on the officiating CREW and the Dez non catch was the correct call under the RULE and the league CONFIRMED it was the correct call. Instead of always complaining about the officiating, complain about our defense.

The Dez call was bad because there was no clear evidence to overturn it. The call made by the ref on the field was that it was a catch. Instant replay showed no clear evidence that it was not a catch. Show me the pic where the replay clearly shows that the ball touches the ground. That's why it was wrong.

 

[LandryFan]

The NFL needs to hire refs all year long and make them learn their craft during the offseason.

I seriously doubt that would make any difference. They would just be full-time morons instead of part-time morons. Blandino is year round and it doesn't help him....

 

[nathanlt]

There wasn't anything malicious about either call. The call on Sunday was a mistake that put a negative spotlight on the officiating CREW and the Dez non catch was the correct call under the RULE and the league CONFIRMED it was the correct call. Instead of always complaining about the officiating, complain about our defense.

The NFL rulebook is confirmation that all the speeches by NFL officials were irrelevant after Dez's catch was tampered with. By rule, specifically by the written rule, it was a catch. This last week's unsportsmanlike conduct variety, hadn't been called in 22 years, and the NFL has admitted it was the wrong call. Now the NFL is simply in PR mode, trying to minimize the damage from their ineptitude.

 

[KJJ]

The officiating is far worse then our defense so I get his complaints there.

The officiating didn't get us beat and our defense did. We didn't lose our last two playoff games due a couple of officiating calls.

 

[erod]

Supposedly, this call hasn't been made in the NFL since 1984. That's 37 years.

And Bob Sturm has tried to research it, and he couldn't find the call in 1984.

 

[risco]

We have to be good enough to overcome that...but that call was potentially a game-changer.

But Refs are not considered an adversity in a game, but now they are!

 

[KJJ]

The Dez call was bad because there was not clear evidence to overturn it. The call made by the ref on the field was catch. Instant replay was not clear evidence that it was not a catch. That's why it was wrong.

I'm not about to go through that all over again. LOL Instant replay clearly showed Dez didn't complete the process of making a legal catch.