BH, ask many Cowboys, Bills, Dolphins and Commanders fans what they think about them referees and why. Better yet, ask those teams' players. Ask Micah Parsons what he thinks. He's got tape to support his questions, doubts and misgivings.
They play the 49ers coming off of a mini bye. Then they play the Cowboys, coming off of a mini bye. Where does that fit into your narrative? You are mistaking coincidence with intent… tinfoil hat.
No if the league says Dallas must lose than they have to lose. All the games outcomes are predetermined just like wwe
AC, all I’m saying is I think the Cowboys are a very good team on their own. The eagles are a very good team too. And not because of the refs. Have they benefitted from some bad calls yes? Yes. Is that the only reason they are winning? No.
Because people see the Eagles as a long-term threat. Giants were flashes in the pan who got hot late in the year and Eli played way over his head in the playoffs to win a few rings. Great for them but they were never going to sustain that success over a long period of time. Also, both of their rings could have been stopped had we just beat them one more time each season. They snuck in each year at the end.
But when do the Eagles have to overcome "unfairness"?? Not seeing it at all. That is the point everyone is making. Eagles opponents have to overcome that but the Eagles are benefitting directly from it. Not an even playing scale. It's becoming so glaring, too. Even fans who have no horse in the race are saying how biased their games are called.
And this is why we have the rise in cluckery around here about refs "cheating" for Philly: fear. Fear makes people pretty creative in explaining away the undesirable.
The scheduling system is as balanced as it possibly could be.
Including the Cowboys.
i'm guilty of forgetting this every other year or so
Yes, there's some luck of the draw involved, but the Eagles have been lucky this year in several aspects (such as the bad spot on their first drive against us in that first game that allowed them to face fourth-and-1 instead of fourth-and-2). It seems like a long time to this lifelong Cowboys fans since my team got a favorable bounce in the quest for the Super Bowl. But luck is part of what is needed to get there.
Although they’re in the unusual situation of facing three straight opponents, playoff teams last year, with winning records this year, that have the benefit of extra rest coming off Thursday Night Football games. I’m sure Eagles fans are whining about that, even though it didn’t help Buffalo. Schedule makers just goofed, I guess.
I don’t disagree in totality Philadelphia seems to have more advantages with the schedule than Dallas, but I think there is some eye-of-the-beholder stuff too. Things that seem better due to Confirmation bias. Like what isn’t mentioned is Philadelphia is playing back to back teams coming off Thursday games who have a week and a half rest when Philly doesn’t (SF-DAL). Both have records this late in the season where they’ve won more than 2/3rd’s of their games. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first time in NFL history a team has had to do that against opponents of that caliber. And then Andy Reid’s bye week record. He was given a home game after his bye, that already is a tough ask, and who is the 1 team on his 17 game schedule that has to play Andy Reid after his bye in KC? Philadelphia.
I used to do that to a supervisor at my job. He HATED Dez. All day long Id message people and hey when you see him, throw up an X.
