Taylor Decker reporting his eligibility to the refs

[Tommy]

Exactly. If you declare someone eligible the defense gets a heads up. No masking allowed. The Lions sent three players over to try and confuse the refs into allowing one of the 3 players to catch the ball.

If this same scenario happened to the Cowboys this forum would be crying about how stupid McCarthy is for trying to get cute.

The Lions do it and it’s all the refs fault. Lions should get the win.

 

[Tommy]

Why would he say anything other than I’m reporting as an eligible receiver. Uh, hey ref they have good corndog out front. That’s far fetched. As far as I know the refs are moved up too. I will say normally they announce it on the PA as 68 is reporting as an eligible wr, but in today’s game they just flip to some commercial. Complete nonsense, the Cowboys should not accept that win.

This is a stupid post.

You seem to know a lot. Tell us what the 3rd guy was discussing.

 

[jazzcat22]

the call was for ineligible receiver ....I'm happy Dallas won but at least I'm fair when watching NFL games, not a blind homer complaining about the calls Dallas isn't getting all game every game....a blatent bad call is a bad call, that was a blatent bad call by the refs that cost Detriot the game, refs screwed up, they announced the wrong number being elligible...the flag by the way wasn't throw until well after the play was over..

Once again it was not a bad call...and it is not from a blind homer either.

I am watching the replay of the game right now, and here is what I see. When Detroit lined up, the WR had 68 covered up. Dallas called a TO.
Also 68 was lined up at LT, a true LT.

When they lined up for the play after the TO, he was not covered up. Therefore it was an illegal formation.

Stop trying to be a non homer, and see that it was the correct call.

Go and take a look.

 

[FVSTONE]

Personally, since this BS helped the Cowboys I could see the NFL brain trust overturning this penalty and making the two teams play out the remaining 23 seconds without fans with Detroit up 21-20. It wouldn't be the first time the NFL has put it to JJ...............

 

[DCwarrior]

People keep saying illegal formation where is that video?

He was not covered. Look at any pic pre snap.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Isn’t this rich?

All the conspiracy crew have suddenly become NFL Rulebook aficionados.

 

[RomoIsGod]

Now try to explain away the other two penalties the Lions committed on that same play.

Exactly. Whether he reported or not it was still illegal procedure.

 

[RomoIsGod]

Once again it was not a bad call...and it is not from a blind homer either.

I am watching the replay of the game right now, and here is what I see. When Detroit lined up, the WR had 68 covered up. Dallas called a TO.
Also 68 was lined up at LT, a true LT.

When they lined up for the play after the TO, he was not covered up. Therefore it was an illegal formation.

Stop trying to be a non homer, and see that it was the correct call.

Go and take a look.

Exactly

 

[vicjagger]

Decker properly reported as eligible, but was covered by Dan Skipper, thus making him in-eligible by alignment.

Or to put it another way, Decker reported as eligible, but Skipper lined up as eligible. Skipper was the only lineman who could catch it legally.

 

[jazzcat22]

He was not covered. Look at any pic pre snap.

See my post a few above.

They lined up correct initially. Dallas called TO, when they lined up again, correct the WR did not cover him up.
Therefore, 68 was playing a true LT position. Not eligible at that point, regardless if he did report or not.

Amazing the media will not address this. Or some of our own fans.

 

[tm1119]

Once again it was not a bad call...and it is not from a blind homer either.

I am watching the replay of the game right now, and here is what I see. When Detroit lined up, the WR had 68 covered up. Dallas called a TO.
Also 68 was lined up at LT, a true LT.

When they lined up for the play after the TO, he was not covered up. Therefore it was an illegal formation.

Stop trying to be a non homer, and see that it was the correct call.

Go and take a look.

You can argue that the Lions tried to confuse the Cowboys by sending 3 lineman to the Ref and it backfired by also confusing the Ref…but that wasn’t an illegal formation

 

[RomoIsGod]

Another explanation I seen was that the ref was looking at 70 running to him to report, and he did not see 68 as he focused on 70. Also as mention, another OL was there in the way of the ref and 68.
The ref went to the defense and told them 70 was reporting as eligible, so they focused on him and not 68. Who was lined up in an illegal formation anyway.

Exactly

 

[RomoIsGod]

See my post a few above.

They lined up correct initially. Dallas called TO, when they lined up again, correct the WR did not cover him up.
Therefore, 68 was playing a true LT position. Not eligible at that point, regardless if he did report or not.

Amazing the media will not address this. Or some of our own fans.

Exactly

 

[Zekeats]

Now try to explain away the other two penalties the Lions committed on that same play.

what were they? I thought they needed a guy off the line of scrimmage on the one side.

 

[Silverz1972]

So tell us why the 3rd guy is approaching the ref?

Is he reporting or wishing him a happy new year?

Someone pull up the rule book. 58 and 68 are the starting tackles and was already in the game on the previous play. Is there a rule that only one player that us currently in the game can report as elligble.

Fact is three players was heading was at the refs.

My guess is 58 reported as elligle and 70 was elligble but 68 decker although he went to the ref never reported as elligble.

Cowboys players will play the players based on what the refs tell them is elligible. They won’t cover a guy that is ineligible.

I would like to hear from brad allen his take.

 

[jazzcat22]

You can argue that the Lions tried to confuse the Cowboys by sending 3 lineman to the Ref and it backfired by also confusing the Ref…but that wasn’t an illegal formation

Go look at the game film, he was not covered. After the TO by Dallas.

 

[Frosty]

Once again it was not a bad call...and it is not from a blind homer either.

I am watching the replay of the game right now, and here is what I see. When Detroit lined up, the WR had 68 covered up. Dallas called a TO.
Also 68 was lined up at LT, a true LT.

When they lined up for the play after the TO, he was not covered up. Therefore it was an illegal formation.

Stop trying to be a non homer, and see that it was the correct call.

Go and take a look.

Completely agree, NFL officiating has been bad all year....if the ref's would have and should have called illegal formation there would be less complaining today...but then again....the NFL Ref's screwed it up again

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Decker properly reported as eligible, but was covered by Dan Skipper, thus making him in-eligible by alignment.

Or to put it another way, Decker reported as eligible, but Skipper lined up as eligible. Skipper was the only lineman who could catch it legally.

Decker was not covered, Skipper was

 

[Redsfan_83]

Nobody is talking about the timeout, just that the refs blew the call. Either way the Lions tried to deceive by sending 3 players up to the refs, so.....I would like somebody in the media to discuss the timeout scenario and see if that is why the refs got it right because right now, nobody is talking about it nor did Allen reference that

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Once again it was not a bad call...and it is not from a blind homer either.

I am watching the replay of the game right now, and here is what I see. When Detroit lined up, the WR had 68 covered up. Dallas called a TO.
Also 68 was lined up at LT, a true LT.

When they lined up for the play after the TO, he was not covered up. Therefore it was an illegal formation.

Stop trying to be a non homer, and see that it was the correct call.

Go and take a look.

He is not supposed to be covered up. Him being covered up is the illegal formation