My father is not a Cowboy fan and even he was flabbergasted

[Tass]

The officiating was atrocious. I was telling dad before the game that the refs seem to have it in for the Cowboys and that Jerry suing the league did the team no favors. Dad was skeptical. "Every fan thinks their team gets short-changed."

Then we sat down to watch the Thanksgiving game.

Dad was amazed. He was laughing at NO calls against the Raiders for holding Demarcus Ware, he was flummoxed by the non-call of a facemask on Dunbar, and he was outright offended by the refs ruling that Williams fumbled. He said "Wow, son...I'm not a Cowboys fan and even I can see the refs have it in for your team."

Feel my pain, pop.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Seems like they way reffing has always been to me. They just miss calls not really biased either way.

 

[coult44]

The facemask was horrible, the no calls on the holding was so bad it was laughable even to non Cowboy fans,and even the no review on Dez fumble was dumb. That was close to the exact same play last week, when they said it was incomplete...

 

[BoysFan4ever]

They miss a lot of calls but I'm not buying they have it in for the Cowboys. Aren't the NFL refs graded after every game?

 

[mahoneybill]

One of these days we will have the Ware Rule.

It will be like a horse collar but different in that its around the neck ........

 

[Rack]

The officiating was atrocious. I was telling dad before the game that the refs seem to have it in for the Cowboys and that Jerry suing the league did the team no favors. Dad was skeptical. "Every fan thinks their team gets short-changed."

Then we sat down to watch the Thanksgiving game.

Dad was amazed. He was laughing at NO calls against the Raiders for holding Demarcus Ware, he was flummoxed by the non-call of a facemask on Dunbar, and he was outright offended by the refs ruling that Williams fumbled. He said "Wow, son...I'm not a Cowboys fan and even I can see the refs have it in for your team."

Feel my pain, pop.

I always watch the game with a buddy of mine (Browns fan/cowboys hater) and even he has been noticing it the last few weeks.

Says a lot IMO.

 

[Cowboys22]

I have never been one to complain about the refs. I have always thought it was impossible for them to call everything, see everything, or get everything correct and have that you just had to deal with it and hope it evened out. However, I do think something has happened to where they will not call holding against Ware. It's almost as if the league decided a few years back that he couldn't be blocked within the rules and so they have secretly relaxed the rules for those trying to block him. There seems to be several blatant holds against him every week that are never called. What really sucks is that it is stealing his stats and legacy from him. All the other stuff, I just deal with but the constant holding against Ware has pushed me over the edge to believe something is going on.

 

[cowboys1981]

I don't know who gets held more between Ware and Bryant.

 

[Clove]

The officiating is fine. Calls went against us, and calls went against the Raiders.

 

[JBS]

You guys are silly. These threads can be made for every team every week. Get a grip

 

[Hoofbite]

The facemask was horrible, the no calls on the holding was so bad it was laughable even to non Cowboy fans,and even the no review on Dez fumble was dumb. That was close to the exact same play last week, when they said it was incomplete...

The plays weren't similar at all really.

 

[Hook'em#11]

You guys are silly. These threads can be made for every team every week. Get a grip

Hahah.. Look at this guy... Blind as a damn bat.

 

[cowboyvic]

The officiating is fine. Calls went against us, and calls went against the Raiders.

Keep telling yourself that. people are not blind or stupid. they know what they are seeing with their eyes.it's clear what is going on here.

 

[Hoofbite]

Watch any other game during the week and you'll see that officiating is a league-wide problem.

This was flagged last week and looks to be a new low that things have sunken to.

Gronkowski mugged at the end of the game against Carolina.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

He was probably being nice but he is right most fans think the refs have it in for their team. Visit any other Nfl team message board for confirmation.

 

[dupree89]

We can go to a message board for any team (in any sport) and see people claiming the refs/umps are out to get their team. Its the same with national announcers- like Aikman. We'll read here that he is so negative about the Cowboys, but then go to a message board for the opponent and read that "Its sickening how Aikman is so slanted with his views and just loves the Cowboys".

 

[KB1122]

I agree with both sides, actually. Yes, I think the Cowboys get the worst of calls, and yes, officiating around the league is a disaster right now.

 

[blackbull]

Jerry ran his mouth about how much he liked the replacement refs. Enjoy the result

 

[ConstantReboot]

The bad part to all of this is that Garrett doesn't have the balls to call out the refs. He doesn't have to make it obvious that his mad about the calls. He should just let the refs know that they were bad calls etc. However, Garrett just stands there like a statue.  What really got me was when a few weeks ago Harris got hit out of bounds and injured himself. Garrett didn't even question the refs why there was no flag on that play. Seriously, our team is run by clowns.

 

[Sarge]

The refereeing is bad league-wide. It's not just the Cowboys, but there is no denying there have ben some bad calls and some bad non-calls of late in our games.