What the heck was that review before the Maher 60 yard field goal before the half?

[Typhus]

Exactly, imagine if this were to happen in a much closer game. Would the passive response here be the same?

Good question, and I would have to say possibly.
I can be called the conspiracy theorist king and I am good with that, because I have seen it so many times in close games, we all have.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Good question, and I would have to say possibly.
I can be called the conspiracy theorist king and I am good with that, because I have seen it so many times in close games, we all have.

This was as obvious as it gets imo.

 

[Typhus]

This was as obvious as it gets imo.

Blatant and absurd IMHO.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Blatant and absurd IMHO.

Even a certain ref defender hasn't tried to defend it as it was illegal.

 

[Blackrain]

Appreciate that. I'm never disrespectful unless someone else wants to go down that road first. I didn't see your other posts in here mentioning me. You have the use the @ bat signal and then I'll show up like Beetlejiuce. On this play itself, yes the call was super late which is weird because one of the replay angles confirmed that Lamb pinned the ball to his chest after having it slide a little and didn't let it slide further. All I can think of is they were concentrating on that other angle that made it look like the ball hit the turf and then looked at the other one later. But @Kevinicus is right about one of the officials under the goalpost. He clearly saw/heard something was up and didn't make a call on the FG like he was supposed to if it was a good play.

It's in my other post but I just can't understand how with the length of time the timeout took that they didn't hold the field goal up while they made a decision.

They let the poor guy kick a 60-yard field goal and then made him have to do it again

If I were to concede that everything was legitimate that was the poorest exhibition of officiating in recent memory.

I just can't believe with all the technology available to everyone today that these guys are that bad.

It always amazes me how great close-ups they can get on stuff that doesn't matter and then other stuff that's really important they're showing all different angles but it's so far away that it makes things difficult to see.

I'm glad you weighed in on this brother I was getting worried about you. Lol

 

[Chuck 54]

They are going to say there was no snap, because the call to review came in before the snap, like a last second time out to ice kicker, the ball might get snapped, but it's a "non play." Not saying this is right, but that's going to be the league's line on this.

What annoys me about it is that the folks in NY should have called for the review immediately. The entire play clock ran down; the Cowboys had to use a timeout to avoid a penalty; after the timeout, we lined up to kick the FG. So the call for the review came in right before the FG snap? That’s ridiculous. No excuse for it coming that late and possibly costing us points.

 

[DripTooHard]

What annoys me about it is that the folks in NY should have called for the review immediately. The entire play clock ran down; the Cowboys had to use a timeout to avoid a penalty; after the timeout, we lined up to kick the FG. So the call for the review came in right before the FG snap? That’s ridiculous. No excuse for it coming that late and possibly costing us points.

Well perhaps they were hoping that the FG would get blocked on a second attempt with a possible scoring opportunity for the Vikings. Gotta keep the audience interested I suppose.

 

[Plankton]

Appreciate that. I'm never disrespectful unless someone else wants to go down that road first. I didn't see your other posts in here mentioning me. You have the use the @ bat signal and then I'll show up like Beetlejiuce. On this play itself, yes the call was super late which is weird because one of the replay angles confirmed that Lamb pinned the ball to his chest after having it slide a little and didn't let it slide further. All I can think of is they were concentrating on that other angle that made it look like the ball hit the turf and then looked at the other one later. But @Kevinicus is right about one of the officials under the goalpost. He clearly saw/heard something was up and didn't make a call on the FG like he was supposed to if it was a good play.

I think the one to the left didn't indicate that the kick was good because the kick was to the right hand side upright, and he couldn't tell. The one on the right upright could see it, and ruled it good. I have seen that happen before.

 

[G2]

Kind of funny. They make him kick again and he kicks it better.

 

[sillycon]

What happened during the timeout? Please explain that time frame. Why wasn't either team notified of said replay?

Maybe the timeout applies to the replay officials too... lol

 

[CWR]

I hope that’s not true
I think the league should have an open investigation
I doubt the communication between league and officials is not recorded and likely time stamped
It would be easy to see if they buzzed before the snap
Reviewing the catch was reasonable
It probably should have been looked at being as it was so impactful

I'm as ignorant as anyone, but the league would not be the ones to expose anything. Do you remember how quickly the NBA moved to resolve Tim Donaghy? There's a doc on Netflix. They wanted to bury that story the moment it surfaced.

Maybe it is just flat out incompetence. Maybe I'm incredibly biased as well, but there have been so many back breaking calls over the years I refuse to give the benefit of the doubt anymore.

 

[CWR]

Exactly, imagine if this were to happen in a much closer game. Would the passive response here be the same?

Nope and that's always the response after we win a questionably one-sided officiated game.

They said the same thing last year after the Pats, and we were jobbed that entire game.

 

[RonnieT24]

Four words: The fix was in..

Only the Cowboys refused to cooperate.

 

[MarcusRock]

I think the one to the left didn't indicate that the kick was good because the kick was to the right hand side upright, and he couldn't tell. The one on the right upright could see it, and ruled it good. I have seen that happen before.

No, I just watched the video and the ref who made no signal was clearly not interested and barely watched it sail through so he knew something was up. Besides, even if he's at the far upright, all he has to see is the ball pass in front of the other upright and not behind which is pretty easy to do and an easy call in a dome with no elements to worry about.

 

[gimmesix]

Exactly, imagine if this were to happen in a much closer game. Would the passive response here be the same?

It probably would have in a much closer game if he made the second kick like he did. If he misses the kick and we end up losing, then it gets a lot more play. Even if he missed the kick and we went on to still dominate, it wouldn't be as big of an issue.

 

[MarcusRock]

Nope and that's always the response after we win a questionably one-sided officiated game.

They said the same thing last year after the Pats, and we were jobbed that entire game.

Until the refs gave us that game in the end ...

 

[CWR]

Until the refs gave us that game in the end ...

Lawd we had the discussion back then. That did not even come close to the robbery we faced the entire game.

I'm glad you're here, though. I've been interested to hear your justification for the non field goal Sunday.

 

[MarcusRock]

Lawd we had the discussion back then. That did not even come close to the robbery we faced the entire game.

I'm glad you're here, though. I've been interested to hear your justification for the non field goal Sunday.

Hey, from what I hear from "them," not you in particular, it's not about the number of calls but when they're called. "They" say it's typically late in the game and game-affecting. This play in New England was exactly that but because we benefitted, now it doesn't count. Refs are not great all around. We get some and we lose some. Half the time, people griping about missed fouls (like Parsons "getting held every play") don't even know the full rules they're griping against. So hearing about it over and over again doesn't mean it's actually correct. That's why I'm here, lol.

 

[gimmesix]

Until the refs gave us that game in the end ...

If you want to compare how many times we've been jobbed at the end of games vs. how many times the teams we've faced have been jobbed at the end, I think you'll badly lose that argument. A couple of examples of bad calls in our favor don't negate the argument that we get an inordinate amount that go against us.

 

[CWR]

Hey, from what I hear from "them," not you in particular, it's not about the number of calls but when they're called. "They" say it's typically late in the game and game-affecting. This play in New England was exactly that but because we benefitted, now it doesn't count. Refs are not great all around. We get some and we lose some. Half the time, people griping about missed fouls (like Parsons "getting held every play") don't even know the full rules they're griping against. So hearing about it over and over again doesn't mean it's actually correct. That's why I'm here, lol.

The calls against us were brutal, and although it's been a while, I'm fairly certain some of them took points off the board. I dont care if that's in the 1st or 4th, it's a big call.

I think one Dak or Zeke had broke the plain and instead ended up being called short and then fumbled. It's a little jumbled because that was near the same time they screwed us against the eagles. It was the game Dak was literally laying in the endzone and they tried to claim they couldn't see the ball cross the goalline. Of course, there was nowhere else the ball could've been since he retained possession.