Taylor Decker reporting his eligibility to the refs

DoctorChicken said:
So you’re telling me the ref can’t see 68 here

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I agree that Detroit had the responsibility of clarifying.

I don’t believe that the ref didn’t screw up. The ref screwed up and it probably cost Detroit the game.
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I can see 70!!!

And 58!!!
 
Look the lions tried to cheat the intent of the rules. The admitted as much in their attempt to try to justify why they were wronged. The ran 70 out the whole game as the eligible. The intent was to get Dallas to get used to 70 being eligible. Then they ran 68 out there for that play. Then they had three players go up to the ref to again cover up their intent. That wanted Dallas to believe that 70 was eligible. This is how they attempted to cheat the intent of the rule because the ref has to announce an eligible player. They ended up confusing the ref in their deciet. They got their just desserts. Now fine them for cheating. The wanted to use the ref to help them in their deciet. Dallas said if they declared the right player then they would have covered him. You can see our player wait for 70 to come out but he never did. Cheaters.
 
28 pages of rationalizing the Cowboys caught a break.

IS NOT POSSIBLE! NEARLY THREE DECADES OF FAILURE ARE "THE REFS" FAULT. CANNOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER EXPLANATION!

The officials blew it, in our favor. It's okay to admit it. We caught a break this time. I'll take it.
 
sacase said:
Look the lions tried to cheat the intent of the rules. The admitted as much in their attempt to try to justify why they were wronged. The ran 70 out the whole game as the eligible. The intent was to get Dallas to get used to 70 being eligible. Then they ran 68 out there for that play. Then they had three players go up to the ref to again cover up their intent. That wanted Dallas to believe that 70 was eligible. This is how they attempted to cheat the intent of the rule because the ref has to announce an eligible player. They ended up confusing the ref in their deciet. They got their just desserts. Now fine them for cheating. The wanted to use the ref to help them in their deciet. Dallas said if they declared the right player then they would have covered him. You can see our player wait for 70 to come out but he never did. Cheaters.
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100% correct!!!
 
Jake said:
28 pages of rationalizing the Cowboys caught a break.

IS NOT POSSIBLE! NEARLY THREE DECADES OF FAILURE ARE "THE REFS" FAULT. CANNOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER EXPLANATION!

The officials blew it, in our favor. It's okay to admit it. We caught a break this time. I'll take it.
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Wrong.
 
ConstantReboot said:
Yeah I truly hate that the refs had something to do with the outcome of this game, intentional or non-intentional.
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100% agree. The refs influenced the game with 2 mistakes. 1st mistake is the tripping on Hendershot call. 2nd mistake was the eligibility error. We did not benefit from the Hendershot call but we benefited from the eligibility error. Unfortunately for the Lions the eligibility error took points off the board.

But they benefited from a mistake. We benefited from a mistake. Both of those mistakes still had opportunities to deal with it within the game. We had to keep them from taking the lead when the error went against us, then they did take the lead but the error took the lead away. But they still had 2 more chances to take the lead.

One thing I don’t understand is what Dan Cambell was thinking. Why do a gimmicky play there and try and trick us. You just shredded our defense with straight up play. I think if they would have ran the ball we wouldn’t have stopped them and we would have lost without the fiasco. I think Dan outsmarted himself and should have just punched us in the mouth and won.
 
plymkr said:
100% agree. The refs influenced the game with 2 mistakes. 1st mistake is the tripping on Hendershot call. 2nd mistake was the eligibility error. We did not benefit from the Hendershot call but we benefited from the eligibility error. Unfortunately for the Lions the eligibility error took points off the board.

But they benefited from a mistake. We benefited from a mistake. Both of those mistakes still had opportunities to deal with it within the game. We had to keep them from taking the lead when the error went against us, then they did take the lead but the error took the lead away. But they still had 2 more chances to take the lead.

One thing I don’t understand is what Dan Cambell was thinking. Why do a gimmicky play there and try and trick us. You just shredded our defense with straight up play. I think if they would have ran the ball we wouldn’t have stopped them and we would have lost without the fiasco. I think Dan outsmarted himself and should have just punched us in the mouth and won.
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Both plays were influenced by Detroit. They did the leg whip and they sent 3 lineman to report 1 eligible receiver. First was missed called on the wrong team, second was miscommunication due to Cambell's stupidity.
 
Jake said:
28 pages of rationalizing the Cowboys caught a break.

IS NOT POSSIBLE! NEARLY THREE DECADES OF FAILURE ARE "THE REFS" FAULT. CANNOT ACCEPT ANY OTHER EXPLANATION!

The officials blew it, in our favor. It's okay to admit it. We caught a break this time. I'll take it.
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They didn’t blow it. The Lions purposely created confusion in order to skirt the rules and it backfired on them. No one will ever convince me that 68 clearly reported to the ref and he then a few seconds later forgot and announced 70 as eligible instead. Whatever 68 said or did was purposely vague and then 70 runs in to create even more confusion and is announced as eligible. Detroit had plenty of time to correct the eligible player but chose not to hoping the officials would not throw the flag which of course was part of the planned deception. Just call it was it was, an attempt to cheat. Thankfully it didn’t work.
 
Lions confused the refs by sending 70 all game long to report and then at the last minute tried to change it to 68 reporting, they tried to trick the defense and ended up tricking the Ref and themselves, very Bellicheaty strategy by Campbell, I'm glad it back fired, get those sneaky tactics out of the game and don't play the victim now.
 
sacase said:
Look the lions tried to cheat the intent of the rules. The admitted as much in their attempt to try to justify why they were wronged. The ran 70 out the whole game as the eligible. The intent was to get Dallas to get used to 70 being eligible. Then they ran 68 out there for that play. Then they had three players go up to the ref to again cover up their intent. That wanted Dallas to believe that 70 was eligible. This is how they attempted to cheat the intent of the rule because the ref has to announce an eligible player. They ended up confusing the ref in their deciet. They got their just desserts. Now fine them for cheating. The wanted to use the ref to help them in their deciet. Dallas said if they declared the right player then they would have covered him. You can see our player wait for 70 to come out but he never did. Cheaters.
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The Lions got beat by their own cheating ways. I agree that was their secret play they were holding in a desperation move. They couldn't get in the end zone and they new it. So they resorted to cheating . The reason they scored so easy was because that player wasn't covered because 70 was announced as the eligible player. If the Lions had such an objection over it , why didn't they let the refs know? This was staged like this on purpose . They probably practiced it . In their mind it was a card they were holding to use in a desperate situation. :hammer:
 
I love how on GMFB(Good Morning Football), they failed to mention that:

Even if #68 would have reported eligible, a flag would have still been thrown due to an illegal formation. Eligible receivers on the goaline, have to be on the outside. 68 was not on the outside, this is why there were multiple flags thrown. Illegal touching and Illegal formation.

Illegal touching was caused by the controversy in question. Whatever take you want is whatever. But...

They would have been penalized anyway. I thought GMFB has a little more integrity, and I use that term loosely here, than most sports media shows. I'm done with them.

I like how no one, media, is talking about the actual game itself, rather just the "2 point controversy". Whatever draws ratings I guess. Rant over.
 
RoyalCowboy said:
Even if #68 would have reported eligible, a flag would have still been thrown due to an illegal formation. Eligible receivers on the goaline, have to be on the outside. 68 was not on the outside, this is why there were multiple flags thrown. Illegal touching and Illegal formation.
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Here is a solid explanation of why the formation was legal. Bear in mind the Lions practiced this play all week. I expect they took a few seconds to determine the formation was okay

 
sacase said:
Look the lions tried to cheat the intent of the rules. The admitted as much in their attempt to try to justify why they were wronged. The ran 70 out the whole game as the eligible. The intent was to get Dallas to get used to 70 being eligible. Then they ran 68 out there for that play. Then they had three players go up to the ref to again cover up their intent. That wanted Dallas to believe that 70 was eligible. This is how they attempted to cheat the intent of the rule because the ref has to announce an eligible player. They ended up confusing the ref in their deciet. They got their just desserts. Now fine them for cheating. The wanted to use the ref to help them in their deciet. Dallas said if they declared the right player then they would have covered him. You can see our player wait for 70 to come out but he never did. Cheaters.
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This is one of the most concise, accurate recaps of the situation that I’ve seen.

I think it’s clear that Detroit was trying to “game” the rules and it backfired.

And it’s not even that clever of a “trick” play anyway. The premise is that they keep running #70 out as eligible but then “fool” us by using #68 right at the end, but the ref announces who the eligible guy is anyway. So it’s likely that if they announce #68, the defense accounts for him and he’s not open.
 
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