Travesty of Officiating

[CalPolyTechnique]

End of thread. Cowboys are a team this season who don't commit a lot of penalties

Loool, smh.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

I am pretty sure you can go on the opposing fan forum for the team that has played the Stealers every week and you will find the same conversations about the officiating.

 

[Ranching]

You can also see incompetent refs at the pro level, weekly. Wether its fixed or not I dont really get into, but bad calls and a blatantly missed calls happen regularly. The refs arent up to par with the game.

I agree, thats the human element that makes it fun. Like i tell my players, that's life, learn to deal with it and you'll be a stronger man. Bad calls suck or they are great, depending what side you're on. One of the reasons i love the game.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I am pretty sure you can go on the opposing fan forum for the team that has played the Stealers every week and you will find the same conversations about the officiating.

And I'm sure you can go on the Steelers' message board and they'll be complaining about the "unfair" officiating week-in and week-out too.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Look where we were playing........Heinz Field..........notorious for home cooking.

The last penalty was so blatant right in front of the Cowboy's bench that the refs couldn't ignore it. If that play was on the other sideline, no call, I guarantee it.

We had to beat the Steelers and the Refs today............great job by the players and coaching staff.

 

[Doomsay]

According to espns Pittsburgh writer the steelers had to overcome the calls smh

"Calls weren't friendly to Pittsburgh, but the Steelers tried to overcome them. They didn't matter on a big-boy-slacks drive by Roethlisberger early in the fourth, going 46 yards thanks to a strike to the sideline to Antonio Brown squeezed between two zone defenders."

No one else in the league believes that the Steelers don't get a disproportionate number of favorable calls. It's insane.

 

[Doomsay]

And I'm sure you can go on the Steelers' message board and they'll be complaining about the "unfair" officiating week-in and week-out too.

And they'd be ******* wrong.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

They'd be ******* wrong. Watch the Cardinal Super Bowl if you are confused about the bias.

Lool.

 

[Deep_South]

I think Joe and Troy have led the sportscasting league for years in describing great plays by defensive backs while the replay shows them engaging in blatant pass interference.

 

[percyhoward]

& That first Stealer TD catch was not a catch. That 5 second replay review was some of the tastiest home cooking I have ever seen.

It was actually the 2nd TD that you're talking about. Go to the 0:37 mark, and listen to Buck say, "uhhhhh" when the ball moves. That was a 3rd-down play that gave the Steelers 3 points.

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2016111311/2016/REG10/cowboys@steelers#menu=gameinfo|contentId:0ap3000000738723&tab=analyze

What's funny is Aikman says, "I didn't see the ball move that much," then quickly adds, "if at all!"

 

[ctrous25]

And I'm sure you can go on the Steelers' message board and they'll be complaining about the "unfair" officiating week-in and week-out too.

They benifited a lot today with the calls

 

[Doomsay]

I'll agree wholeheartedly with anyone that says that refereeing is crap.

But I don't want to hear about any conspiracy theories about the league/refs being biased against Dallas. You can't claim that and then sit there and watch them flag Pittsburgh on the final drive for a facemask. If they were out to get us, they wouldn't have called it point-blank.

Nonsensical.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Nonsensical.

If you can't discern the nuance between acknowledging league-wide bad officiating and not simply believing in a conspiracy of biased officiating meant to do-in the Cowboys, I can't help you.

 

[lukin2006]

The Steelers and the Giants, Marra and Rooney=commissioners best friend...at times it seems like it.

 

[Maverick84]

If Cowboys had lost this game the hatred toward the officiating would had been ten-hundred-fold. No question about that.

even if we win the Super Bowl - **** refs.

 

[maxdogg]

I don't really think there is a conspiracy but I do know that after Al Davis won his suit against the N.F.L. to move the team they were killed by holding calls year after year.
When they were the best team in the league with Gannon at the helm the only reason they did not go all the way was Holding!!!

 

[maxdogg]

The Tuck rule was invented to screw the Raiders.

 

[gimmesix]

The fix was in. Only way to explain it. Total screw job. From the 35 yards of holding of Dunbar on the punt return to Beasley having his face ripped off with no call to the several pancake blocks that were called against us. Refs on the take. Period.

I thought it was bad for both sides. There are several they could have called against us that they didn't.

 

[Kaiser]

If you can't discern the nuance between acknowledging league-wide bad officiating and not simply believing in a conspiracy of biased officiating meant to do-in the Cowboys, I can't help you.

There can be a conspiracy FOR the Steelers and Patriots without it being a conspiracy AGAINST the Cowboys.

Also go back and look at the 10MM Salary Cap penalty against the Cowboys and Commanders right after the Giants owner got promoted within the NFL Owners Committee and tell favoritism doesn't happen .

 

[Doomsay]

If you can't discern the nuance between acknowledging league-wide bad officiating and not simply believing in a conspiracy of biased officiating meant to do-in the Cowboys, I can't help you.

Your assertion that a clear and unambiguous penalty called against Pittsburgh on the final drive (penultimate, actually) is proof of the refs' lack of bias, is .....nonsensical - Especially after the refs ignored a more agregious version of that same penalty two plays prior. By your logic, if any call was made against Pittsburgh on that last (2nd to last) series, it would prove that the officials had been unbiased throughout the game.