Penalties resulted in a possible 27 point swing

[BehindEnemyLinez]

The one call that still blows my mind, is the Moss TD that wasn't. If the officals would have continued watching the play it was very clear he lost the ball and had to gather it up against the wall. We had to use a challenge to get it reversed. The TO push out was another. Think about this, the offical did not signal push out because he thought it was a clean catch. I feel they have to change the replay to include the player was pushed out of bounds if he does not have 2 feet in.
In saying all of this NE is and was the better team.

I felt the same way, Jordan. If the ref thought the catch was clean, why would he have signalled a force-out? And if a force-out was THAT evident, common sense states that you have to call it a reception, even if it's a "non reviewable" play. That's two straight weeks that Owens was robbed of a reception b/c of a non force-out call. Maybe the poster who said that refs has agendas against certain players is on to something...

 

[firehawk350]

The one call that still blows my mind, is the Moss TD that wasn't. If the officals would have continued watching the play it was very clear he lost the ball and had to gather it up against the wall. We had to use a challenge to get it reversed. The TO push out was another. Think about this, the offical did not signal push out because he thought it was a clean catch. I feel they have to change the replay to include the player was pushed out of bounds if he does not have 2 feet in.
In saying all of this NE is and was the better team.

Moss was sliding and his back covered up his "fumble". Nobody saw that either until about the 20th replay. The ref got it right in the end, and reversed the call.

Push-outs hardly ever get called, it has to be pretty obvious to be ruled a push-out. I don't think it's written in any specific way in the rule book, but from watching the past couple of years, it's obvious that the refs only call it when it's glaringly obvious.

 

[ejthedj]

You know what? I also believe that the pass interference call against Patrick Watkins was bull crap, he was standing still, and RM ran into him.

The referees really needs to be investigated because the leauge officiating is getting out of hand. I believe that most of these referees is making bets of their own. Take the one from the NBA for example... That's one of the reason why these referees in these sports such as NFL, NBA, etc should be investigated because there are things happening in front of their face, they act like they aren't aware of.

Even Newman agrees with you--he said the same thing in an interview about the refs and the NBA.

Two plays--different calls, both against us. The Watkins PI. and then the Fasano PI--on both plays, defender had claimed the space and they call it against us both ways. I'm not saying Fasano was innocent, but he was kinda forced into the situation (pinned in by two guys) and the Moss pass was way out of range anyway (uncatchable). Total BS

 

[Beast_from_East]

Would you like to address the calls that the Refs COULD have called against the cowboys but did not?

TO was holding on one play when he was blocking for a run play. Not called.

Another Cowboys player blocked Harrison in the back during the one long T.Thompson run back...was not called.

There were at least one other time the refs could have called offsides on the cowboys but did not.

There were two other times I seen cowboys linemen holding that were not called.

We could have had much more penalty yards if the Refs were TRULY out to get this team.

We played sloppy and some always just want to blame the refs for it.

When you play a team like the Patriots you have to bring your A game, not your B game.

EVEN if you take out a couple of truly questionable calls we still had too many penalties and got away with a few.

We lost to the better team yesterday...end of story.

WOW....its sure it amazing how we had over 100 yards in penalities with a 3 to 1 margin against us and you still see all of this that should have been called. WOW.....we should have had like 250 yards in penalities according to you.

Funny, where is the list with what the Patriots infractions are......oh I forgot, the Patroits are perfect and only had 5 freaking penalites the entire game.

DID YOU EVEN LISTEN TO WADE TODAY, BASICALLY HE SAID WE GOT JACKED BY THE REFS.......WADE SEES IT, MOST FANS SEE IT, WHY CANT YOU SEE IT???

 

[Beast_from_East]

Did it ever occurr to anyone that perhaps the best team won the game? Not taking anything away from the Boys, they are really coming along, they just aren't as "along" as NE at this point.

Learn from the loss.........don't cry about it.

How exactly do you learn from getting hosed by the refs on a weekly basis?

WADE BASICALLY SAID IN HIS PC TODAY THAT WE ARE GETTING JACKED BY THE REFS.