The officiating in our games. Is it just me

[adbutcher]

As I always say...we seem to get screwed by the refs badly in at least 1 of the games against the Giants.

Honestly, I was expecting worse since we really didn't have a bad time with the refs in the first game.

But, gotta love Troy trying to make that awful call the same as the 'bad call' on the unsportsmanlike penalty on the Giants on that play.

Our awful call costs us 31 yards and a TD.

Their awful call cost them 2.5 yards and no downs (it was 1st down anyway). But in Troy's mind...that's a 'makeup call.'





YR

I love Troy but he can be intolerable when he calls our games.

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I love Troy but he can be intolerable when he calls our games.

There is no *can*. He is intolerable announcing our games.





YR

 

[adbutcher]

There is no *can*. He is intolerable announcing our games.





YR

My boys 6 and 12 don't believe Troy ever played for the Cowboys, no matter how many times I tell them how great was. My wife, who is a Saints fan often asks me why does Troy hate you guys, lol.

I think he takes his impartiality too far some times.

 

[punchnjudy]

If the league emphasizes calling a certain type of penalty, it's plausible that refs in a nationally televised game would be even more mindful of it, possibly causing them to over-react. I could see that affecting how Cowboys games are called, but I don't think the league has a vendetta against Dallas. If they did, Vegas would have been on to it a long time ago.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Yes. It's not even a question anymore.

In the game against NE, Edelman is freed by their receiver taking out the defender AT THE LINE OF SCRIMMAGE to score a TD which isn't called, and Street doesn't even touch his defender five yards down the field and it's called offensive pass interference.

 

[TheKey]

So bascially Street gets called for Offensive PI and the Patriots WRs pancake DBs every play and there is no call

 

[DogFace]

For all those that keep saying "everyone gets bad calls" "officiating is bad all over" etc. We all know that. We aren't children or morons. Of course everyone gets bad calls. We realize that. What I'm saying is the absurdity of some of the calls we've had against us is not comparable. There is no call nearly as bad as the Street call. It was simply made up and I don't know how a person could make such an obvious error without bias.

 

[links18]

No, it's bad in all games.

There are just too many rules to begin with, and too many nuances to each rule.

The NFL needs to just throw the rule book in the trash and start over. It should be five-page pamphlet, not a five-book reference book series.

When the "network officiating expert" is wrong half the time on replay reviews, you know that NOBODY really knows the rules, not even the referees.

This is the truth of the matter. NFL rules are a black box. On the radio broadcast nobody expected the Jones INT to be overturned. There just wasn't enough evidence to reverse the call on the field and of course it was reversed.

 

[DallasEast]

You gonna affix all players knee pads with sensors too? Not sure what your pitch accomplishes

Whoa. One innovative step at a time. Knowing where the ball is can determine if the offense made a true first down by inches. Or if the defense really snuffed a dive play at the goal line underneath a pile of players. Whether the ballcarrier's elbow, shin or knee is down can still be delegated to the ref's judgment. For the time being...

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Even my gf agreed and she's not smart

I hope your GF doesnt read your posts

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

or do we seem to constantly get the short end of the stick?

Ive been watching for 40 yrs, and yes, yes we do.

 

[burmafrd]

Remember when so many were crying for the 'regular' refs to be back when we had the 'replacement' refs. Bluntly speaking I don't think there would be any real difference anymore.

 

[JDSmith]

I've never been of the conspiracy mindset, but it really looked like that ref didn't throw the flag until McFadden broke into the clear and it was obvious he'd score. I think the ref only threw the flag to prevent the TD, and I'd sure like to know why.

 

[Derinyar]

The officiating was uneven. There was one bad flag I can remember on the Giants. There were a few that I'm surprised didn't draw a flag on the Giants. On the other hand the Cowboys got called for touch fouls a decent amount of the time, and the Street call which was utter garbage. I'm fine if the officials are terrible equally, but they don't seem to be across games. It almost always seems one team is viewed as the "more disciplined" team and gets away with things because they have to watch the miscreants.

 

[DogFace]

Give me an example. You will not see one so made up as the Street one. Ever. It was just oddly bad.

 

[TwoDeep3]

or do we seem to constantly get the short end of the stick? The refs pick yesterday to emphasize the pick play? And the play on third down that Mo made to stop a drive was nearly textbook technique. Yes he did (barely) touch his arm just before the ball got there but it had absolutely had no bearing on the play and it is rarely that that close against us. That continued a TD drive. These two calls were an 11 point swing that the home team did not need especially when you consider all that we were up against.

I also wonder if there is a stat that show how many pass blocking holding calls the Giants have gotten against us in the last 10 years? They never got called even when Spencer, Ratliff and Ware were in their prime. Watching many games this year there seems to be a bias towards the Giants and Steelers and a bias totally against anything Dallas Cowboys.

This season just makes the bogus Dez overturned catch all the more painful. Am I wrong about the officiating? Is it just me?

It's just you. The human element to officiating will always be subjective to the fans, and close, but not entirely accurate. The Giants' fans surely have the same complaint on missed calls or inaccurate calls.

One can either worry over it and what should have been, or realize all teams get favorable calls and non-favorable calls.

It comes down to execution and beating the other team. So many hang their hat on the Dez call, or the Murray fumble in the GB game.

That game was lost because Dallas failed to capitalize on a hobbled Rodgers in the first half and blitz him into the stone age.

The Giants' game was about turnovers and not moving the chains. Not yellow flags.

 

[landroverking]

We aren't New England

 

[JohnsKey19]

The penalty on the McFadden screen was awful.

It's ok. We got a makeup Personal Foul call on our next drive that netted us all of a whopping 2 yards on a 1st down. The FOX producers deemed it necessary to dispute the call on-air for the next 20 minutes.

And we wonder why the general NFL viewing audience believe in the conspiracy theories involving the Cowboys et al???? The powers that be at FOX, CBS, ESPN and likely the NFL perpetuate this garbage through their programming.

 

[fishspill]

It's a league problem, but the alternative is the flag parade we had early in the year. One week (week 2?) saw more on average than any week in history I think. The football that week was trash to watch.

 

[RunDMC]

Just sickens me the way some of these officials and the officiating system changes football games. The Cowboys made a lot of mistakes and that's on them. You can't throw turn the football over four times on the road and not get one yourself and expect to win. I get that, but that absolutely horrific call changed the game. Street did everything you're supposed to do. He basically just stayed in front of his game and moved his feet like he was playing defense in basketball. He made a concerted effort to not make contact before he was supposed to and they throw the flag? What an absolute joke.

I'm so sick of these idiot officials deciding games. That can't happen. This is a player's league and they should decide these games. Makes the sport so unwatchable at times. I mean that's a touchdown and Dallas has 24 points as opposed to having 20 and obviously when they get down to the Giants 20 they can kick a field goal instead of having to go for it on fourth down and take their chances in OT.