The dumb referees

[tupperware]

Something I haven't seen brought up after the game, but likely would have been talked about tons if we had of lost, was the idiotic referees not allowing us to challenge a reviewable call with forward progress.

Think about it for a moment, the referees who are paid to know the rule book front to back got something so easy, wrong.

Anyone thinking #7 for the Steelers?

 

[magic-sword]

I am baffled over that one call when Witten made a first down but did not get forward progress and on top of that disallowed Jason Garrett tossing the red flag.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I am baffled over that one call when Witten made a first down but did not get forward progress and on top of that disallowed Jason Garrett tossing the red flag.

They said that it was not a call that could be reviewed. However, I'm pretty sure that because it had to do with the spot of the ball in relation to the 1st down is a reviewable matter.


It was weired. No part of me thought that they new what they were doing there.

 

[Doomsday101]

I am baffled over that one call when Witten made a first down but did not get forward progress and on top of that disallowed Jason Garrett tossing the red flag.

I agree that was poor and a no brainer to know that forward progress is something that can be reviewed and is reviewed fairly often in games. They flat out blew it.

 

[Temo]

"Cowboys coach Jason Garrett attempted to challenge the spot of the ball in relation to a first down. Referee Tony Corrente disallowed the challenge. Fox Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira said that was a mistake by Corrente."

LINK

 

[Temo]

Also, the only case in which forward progress is not reviewable is a fumble play. IE, a player is stripped, and the official disallows due to calling down by forward progress impeded. Obviously that's not the case here.

 

[links18]

"Cowboys coach Jason Garrett attempted to challenge the spot of the ball in relation to a first down. Referee Tony Corrente disallowed the challenge. Fox Sports rules analyst Mike Pereira said that was a mistake by Corrente."

LINK

A pretty bad-obvious mistake. Where do they get these guys?

 

[casmith07]

That crew won't be reffing in the playoffs.

 

[Temo]

That crew won't be reffing in the playoffs.

Unfortunately, Corrente's already worked multiple playoff games (including Super Bowl XLI) and will probably be back. And that mistake was all on Corrente.

 

[Derinyar]

Its bad when the officials don't know the rules and there by screw a team twice. The worst part of that was it chewed off our last time out to avoid a delay of game penalty on us because they didn't know their rules.

So not only did we not get the 1st down we should have gotten, but we had to pay for not getting it by giving up our last time out to avoid a 5 yard penalty we didn't deserve.

 

[dogberry]

Holy Trigonometry, visions, dark visions of Seattle trouble my dreams. If only the noble refs who could do spherical calculations in their heads, had be at the iggledome to correctly place Jason's advance.

 

[JustDezIt]

Holy Trigonometry, visions, dark visions of Seattle trouble my dreams. If only the noble refs who could do spherical calculations in their heads, had be at the iggledome to correctly place Jason's advance.

did that real wordy longwinded poster get his username changed?

 

[Dcz84]

Thing is they made up for it on the 4th down run by our FB.He lost a half yard but the same guy who gave wit a bad spot 2 plays before gave us a reallllllllllllllllllllly good spot on the 4th down run.

 

[dbair1967]

I cant believe the number of people who actually still write all this off as "mistakes" or "error in judgement"

Some it can be attributed to stuff like this, but alot of it cannot.

 

[links18]

I cant believe the number of people who actually still write all this off as "mistakes" or "error in judgement"

Some it can be attributed to stuff like this, but alot of it cannot.

What do you attribute it to?

 

[dogberry]

db67, I have been trained to not believe in conspiracies or malice as an acceptable answer. Fifty of my years were in the 20th century, a time full of secret dealings and evil. I was trained wrong.

You may very well be right.


Of course you may also be hiding a forked tongue in your cheek.

 

[tomson75]

Unfortunately, incompetence on the field aside, the real problem lies with the NFL, and not the referees.

The oversensitivity this sport has developed with its overpaid players is crippling the sport. They're trying to protect something that is, in the very basic nature of the sport, supposed to be destroyed and defeated. The two just can't be soluble....and right now it's pretty clear that protecting investments by creating more regulation is a priority over the essence of the game itself. They've created so many stupid *** rules that they can't even regulate them without tripping over another stupid *** rule they've made..../rant.

Yeah...again, there were some unbelievably bad calls. /the fact that the refs are forced to go by obscure sections of ticky tack rules rather than make an effort to get the correct result on the field is particularly pathetic. There is no excuse for what happened on Witten's catch.

 

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Meanwhile, when Roy Williams is being pummeled by 4 defenders for 9 seconds and then stripped they said his forward progress was still going?

 

[dbair1967]

What do you attribute it to?

Gambling & personal bias.

 

[jimmy40]

Meanwhile, when Roy Williams is being pummeled by 4 defenders for 9 seconds and then stripped they said his forward progress was still going?

and Witten's forward progress was stopped but they let him keep going backwards and out of bounds and stopped the clock, marking the ball right there and the same ref then gave us the 1st down on the 4th down play when he was short. So who exactly was that ref cheating for?