Unsportsmanlike Conduct on Butler

[DogFace]

Yep, it's so unfair when the other team grabs your WR's jersey multiple time and none of them get called, forcing you to punt when the other team's D had otherwise failed to stop you a single time. Refs can't affect the outcome of the game like that. Right?

Bottom line -- there were bad calls at critical moments BOTH ways. No denying that. But that only makes this game EXACTLY like EVERY other NFL game since time immemorial. Whiners look like sore losers. Enough. Dallas easily could have won anyway, but did not. They just didn't make the right coaching decisions, or the right plays. No one else to blame.

And as an aside -- and to that point -- just shut up, Kelcey. It was the right call. Maybe don't drop a sure TD or take a stupid unnecessary roughness penalty and it won't matter next time.

What exactly were the bad calls that were against the Packers and at what critical moment?

 

[DFWJC]

Here's the rule

"If [a player] approaches the huddle and communicates with a teammate, he is required to participate in at least one play before being withdrawn," Rule 5, Section 2, Article 5 says. "Violations of this rule may be penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The intent of the rule, according to the NFL, is to "prevent teams from using simulated substitutions to confuse an opponent."

 

[Kevinicus]

Yeah, and if they waited until the play was over to call the penalty, that tells you all you need to know.

Are you sure the flag wasn't thrown immediately?

 

[Kevinicus]

It sure seemed FIXED, seems the NFL/Vegas wanted GB and Rodgers.

When is the last time they didn't blow the whistle while throwing the flag on defensive offsides this year? Free plays are rare these days, yet Rodgers hits the TE for a 52 yard TD?
The 15 yard unsportsmanlike was a 50 yard penalty and the penalty is designed to prevent teams from disguising their sub packages, Butler was subbing with T will, so no disguise. Penalty hasn't been called since like 1984
The Pass interference call on A Brown was uncatchable and at most illegal contact 10 yard penalty. They gave them 40 yards and took away a possible game ending interception
The holding call on Doug Free was a drive killing joke
The no hold on Witten was obvious
The no hold on Irving being choked thrown to ground on last play is laughable

To counter & hide it they show are corners being aggressive but don't show theirs

Just a couple of clarifications:

Illegal contact is 5 yards, not 10. The PI only gained the packers about 10 yards (from the 45 to the 35), not 40. Really it was only about a 5 yard difference between PI and what they should have called.

 

[Plankton]

Sorry, bit the rule you're citing is an NCAA rule. The defense is not "allowed" time to substitute in the NFL. If that was an NFL rule, Rogers would not be able to catch those cheap 5-yarders while defenders are leaving the field.

It absolutely is an NFL rule. When Rodgers catches other teams, it is when the defense is trying to substitute when the offense hasn't changed their personnel.

 

[Doomsay]

Are you sure the flag wasn't thrown immediately?

Are you sure that you are a Cowboys fan and not a single issue Romero guy?

 

[Sasquatch]

The while thing reeked of premeditation and collusion between Packers and officials. Seemed extremely contrived.