Why Garrett didn't argue the Clock

[visionary]

That had me puzzled too, .. I was surprised Philly didn't try something with :19 seconds and 3 timeouts. Anything can happen with the speed of Jackson and McCoy.

Why would he call a TO then?

because he is that stupid and situationally unaware?

just a guess

 

[speedkilz88]

Haha, is Pereira a Cowboys fan? Multiple punctuation marks. He seems really PO'd.

Thank God we scored. Can't imagine how depressed I'd be all month if we lost and this dumb screw up by the officials was hanging over the loss.

That was a fan asking him about the clock problem. Pereira is definitely not a Cowboys fan.

 

[rynochop]

Its funny. Everyone is talking about how terrible of a coach he is but just coached a 4 or 5 win team to 8 wins. He has a 4 win team overachieving but I know in some of you guys mind there are some who believe this team is a 11 win team or more.

Yep, i guarantee all these people predicted 5 or 6 wins in the preseason, but theres all this faux outrage when we had a chance to go to the playoffs

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Yep, i guarantee all these people predicted 5 or 6 wins in the preseason, but theres all this faux outrage when we had a chance to go to the playoffs

Exactly. He exceeded their expectations but now we should've been a playoff team lol.

 

[Mr Cowboy]

Why didn't Garrett have the ref explain to him about the mistake regarding the clock. He should of tackle the ref to get his attention.

challenging a bad call by the refs is in year 5 of the on the job training manual!

 

[Cowboy4ever]

challenging a bad call by the refs is in year 5 of the on the job training manual!

What part of "its not reviewable" is so hard to understand. He couldn't have challenged it. Maybe someone knew that and told him that so he just moved on. He made a few mistakes last night that were real, bash him for those.

 

[scottsp]

I just don't get this thinking. I mean as bad as we are on defense? The worst in the league? I don't see how anyone can sit here and say we should've won more than 8 games. And with the circus we have on offense? I'm not giving Garrett some compliment by saying it i'm just noticing a lot of posts talking about how terrible we are and when you factor in all the negative things we do? It makes you wonder how we won even 8 games.

I won't argue any of that, but we both saw the games. But it's not like the wins were improbable. Most of our opponents this year were just as much of a train wreck. And for a solid month, we faced back-up QBs. This isn't some overachieving bunch, and it hasn't been for a number of years.

The personnel is very much the problem, but when you have a competent NFL passer, you're going to have a shot to be in most games. The day Romo goes away, you will get that four-win team you speak-of.

Be glad we played in the NFC East this season. We had that going for us, too.

 

[Longboysfan]

We had no penalties except for that one that really wasn't a penalty, right? So we had no penalties and still lost.

It was the turn overs that killed us.

 

[WV Cowboy]

The fact that such a huge mistake is not reviewable, ... needs to be reviewed. LOL

If they can't fix something that could have been very easily fixed, .. then they need to change that.

That was a foolish mistake, that had we not scored, could have changed the outcome of a teams season that they started back in August.

That is inexcusable.

 

[TNCowboy]

It wasn't reviewable. Stupid, I know but it is, what it is.

Reviewable, no, but teams frequently point out to refs that the clock isn't reset properly, and the ref stops the clock and tells the timekeeper to reset. But no one in our huddle or on our sidelines is smart enough to see even the most basic thing like that, even though it was obvious immediately to Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. Garrett should have been all over that immediately, told the line judge, and it would have been corrected. Instead, we got a potentially crippling penalty.

Bad coaching staffs have no recognition of such things. Neither do stupid players.

 

[TNCowboy]

What part of "its not reviewable" is so hard to understand. He couldn't have challenged it. Maybe someone knew that and told him that so he just moved on. He made a few mistakes last night that were real, bash him for those.

Being reviewable has nothing to do with it. Refs stop the clock when its screwed up all the time. If the Cowboys had pointed it out to them as soon as it was improperly rolled to 25, it would have been fixed.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

I won't argue any of that, but we both saw the games. But it's not like the wins were improbable. Most of our opponents this year were just as much of a train wreck. And for a solid month, we faced back-up QBs. This isn't some overachieving bunch, and it hasn't been for a number of years.

The personnel is very much the problem, but when you have a competent NFL passer, you're going to have a shot to be in most games. The day Romo goes away, you will get that four-win team you speak-of.

Be glad we played in the NFC East this season. We had that going for us, too.

Yea but at the same time you can argue that Romo was responsible for a few of those losses. Maybe as much as some of the wins he had too.

And its not a overachieving bunch at all. But I do think they played to their capabilities and gave it all they had.

 

[JBell]

And what was he to do about it? Was he supposed to throw his play sheet in the air? Maybe toss off his headset, that would show them. Call them over the sideline and tell them that the NFL stands for Not For Long with calls like that? He could have whined and cried for 30 minutes. We still would have been given the 5 yard penalty. It was not review-able. So not sure what he was supposed to do here that would have changed anything.

I've seen Romo argue multiple times this year with refs about incorrect playclocks, and they get fixed everytime.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

It was the turn overs that killed us.

True, but most teams that play penalty free in a "big game" tend to win. The Cowboys find a way to lose these games no matter what.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

Reviewable, no, but teams frequently point out to refs that the clock isn't reset properly, and the ref stops the clock and tells the timekeeper to reset. But no one in our huddle or on our sidelines is smart enough to see even the most basic thing like that, even though it was obvious immediately to Al Michaels and Chris Collinsworth. Garrett should have been all over that immediately, told the line judge, and it would have been corrected. Instead, we got a potentially crippling penalty.

Bad coaching staffs have no recognition of such things. Neither do stupid players.

It wasn't obvious to anyone until the penalty was called. Once the penalty was called, it couldn't be changed. Like I said in my other post, bash him for one of his actual mistakes, there are a few to select from but bashing him over this is really just silly.

 

[Longboysfan]

True, but most teams that play penalty free in a "big game" tend to win. The Cowboys find a way to lose these games no matter what.

Espically us the last few years.

 

[conner01]

How the hell do you let a clock malfunction occur in your own stadium Jerry? ***

jerry has nothing to do with it. they are nfl league employees and its also not reviewable so there was nothing they could do.

 

[conner01]

Someone monitors the play clock, and at that level, there is no reason someone shouldn't be in his ear right away. This is just another in a long line of oversights by the staff.

what do you think the staff was suppose to do. it's not reviewable

 

[tecolote]

It wasn't obvious to anyone until the penalty was called. Once the penalty was called, it couldn't be changed. Like I said in my other post, bash him for one of his actual mistakes, there are a few to select from but bashing him over this is really just silly.

So what? Just standing there not knowing what the hell is going on is a good look for a head coach? The players on the field noticed something was wrong and their "leader" was just standing there on the sideline with his head up his rear end.

 

[JohnsKey19]

i don't think anyone really knew until the replay was showed on NBC.