Taylor Decker reporting his eligibility to the refs

[RonnieT24]

If refs didn't screw up there wouldn't have been a need for another play.

Rigged, just take the win, quietly.

If the refs didn't screw up the tripping call on Hendershot the game ends with the Cowboys kneeling inside the Lions 15 yard line.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Subterfuge my friend. They tried to find a loophole in the rules and got caught. Simple as that.

<Had to work and just got home and wanna make sense of the hoopla. In a couple sentences what happened?

 

[Direwolf63]

The refs blew it. It sucks for Detroit and we benefited from it, this is another reason why I laugh at people who complain about the refs in our games each week because teams get screwed week in and week out in this league it’s just the nature of the beast. Some days you get screwed some days you get breaks.

It’s a game with world class speed that Will always have human error.

That's great. Except there was no error

 

[clff15701]

It was announced before the play even ran.

 

[RonnieT24]

Of course this board is now pro ref

No this board is pro fairness. The only reason the Lions even got a shot to win the game was the bogus tripping call on Hendershot.

 

[gimmesix]

because they were trying to be deceptive to Dallas

That appears to be what it came down to. Three players went to the official, one reported, but with three there the official got the number of the one who reported wrong, so the wrong number was announced and therefore the defense did not know that 68 was eligible. Either way you go, one of the teams would have gotten screwed by the official's gaffe. If they had let the conversion stand, then they would have robbed the defense of knowledge about who had reported as eligible and needed to be covered. Instead, they say they announced 70, so Detroit has to adjust for that but it's likely that the Lions didn't notice. That Campbell had told the officials about this play in the pregame makes it worse.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

You can tell from Campbell's presser that they screwed up. Too much foolery with 3 OL talking to the ref. 70 REPORTED.. Hence the CLEAR announcement by the refs that 70 REPORTED.

 

[Chasing6]

At the end of the day, instead of confusing Dallas they confused themselves and the referees.

 

[Cowboys5217]

The Lions did not get screwed.

 

[BigD5]

If the refs didn't screw up the tripping call on Hendershot the game ends with the Cowboys kneeling inside the Lions 15 yard line.

But nobody wants to talk about the woman referee completely blowing that call…..

The lions player is the one who tries to trip Pollard

 

[VaqueroTD]

Exactly you can't say hey we may run this play. Then report something different and then blame the RI mean, really, if you have to stop and explain the plate

And it sounds like Campbell is blaming the ref for not remembering what he mentioned in passing 4 hours earlier.

The more I hear about it, the less I feel for the Lions. I’m sure we’ll get a definite NFL answer, but cmon, if you’re having to try and explain it to the refs pregame because it’s so damn sneaky…?

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

That appears to be what it came down to. Three players went to the official, one reported, but with three there the official got the number of the one who reported wrong, so the wrong number was announced and therefore the defense did not know that 68 was eligible. Either way you go, one of the teams would have gotten screwed by the official's gaffe. If they had let the conversion stand, then they would have robbed the defense of knowledge about who had reported as eligible and needed to be covered. Instead, they say they announced 70, so Detroit has to adjust for that but it's likely that the Lions didn't notice. That Campbell had told the officials about this play in the pregame makes it worse.

Why does 70 run up to the ref before the play? Clearly they were trying to "trick" Dallas in some form or fashion and they blew it.

 

[Cowboys5217]

No this board is pro fairness. The only reason the Lions even got a shot to win the game was the bogus tripping call on Hendershot.

This is true, but the people that have been busy insulting all of us for having the temerity to call out biased officiating can't go back now. It's an ego thing for them, and it would hurt far too much to go back now.

 

[RonnieT24]

<Had to work and just got home and wanna make sense of the hoopla. In a couple sentences what happened?

The Lions had a successful 2 point play where they threw it to a completely wide open offensive lineman called back because said lineman did not report to the officials. The Lions sent 3 linemen over to the ref #58, #68 and #70. The ref announced #70 as eligible. The Lions threw it to #68. Because he was not identified as eligible the refs threw the flag. Lions fans and Cowboy haters are complaining that the Lions got screwed. Seems to me the Lions screwed themselves trying to get cute.

 

[BigD5]

Also if you look at the overhead shot, I believe Detroit has 12 players inside the numbers when Skipper is trying to come on the field and a WR is running off. That I believe is the same penalty we got called for against GB in that playoff game in 2016

 

[Miller]

No this board is pro fairness. The only reason the Lions even got a shot to win the game was the bogus tripping call on Hendershot.

Dear Lord! Are you kidding? There was a PI on us first drive and many others mentioned in the gane thread by normal posters going our way! You are embarrassing. This board has embarrassed itself! Im gone

 

[Roadtrip635]

 

[Diehardblues]

That appears to be what it came down to. Three players went to the official, one reported, but with three there the official got the number of the one who reported wrong, so the wrong number was announced and therefore the defense did not know that 68 was eligible. Either way you go, one of the teams would have gotten screwed by the official's gaffe. If they had let the conversion stand, then they would have robbed the defense of knowledge about who had reported as eligible and needed to be covered. Instead, they say they announced 70, so Detroit has to adjust for that but it's likely that the Lions didn't notice. That Campbell had told the officials about this play in the pregame makes it worse.

I had a close friend with season seats on 30 yard line 4th row who said official announced only 1 was reporting eligible. Didn’t hear which one it was. Official blew it.

Fortunately big Dan was dumber than dumb continuing to go for it. After the element of surprise is over and pushed back after penalty have to extend game and give your team a chance to win in OT.

 

[Adreme]

How are we supposed to know what he said right there?

There is nothing else to say. There is literally nothing else an OLine player would be running up to the official to do. He is not about to be chatting about the weather. He clearly reported eligible and the ref did not catch it and then the NFL put out a statement where they acted like they were correct and did not realize there was video showing them looking dumb.

Officiating has been abysmal this year and this is kind of obvious, unambiguous, awful call that just articulates the problem. You can debate over what is a hold or what is PI, but when officials cannot even notice when someone is reporting eligible, that the kind of failure you do not expect at the NFL level.

 

[InPhiltraitor]

It was announced before the play even ran.

Funny, number 70 claims he didn’t report and in a post game interview 68 says he did.