There was an even worse call against Dallas before that. These refs are a circus 🎪
If I recall correctly, Brad Allen’s crew has been terrible all season long. Multiple game-altering mistakes this season alone.There was an even worse call against Dallas before that. These refs are a circus 🎪
Refs missed tripping call before late Lions penalty
Officials missed a tripping call late in Saturday's Lions-Cowboys game that later allowed for their controversial ruling on Detroit's 2-point conversion.www.espn.com
Thanks for the clarification. It really made no sense to me that Campbell would not kick the point, rather than go for 2 from the 7, if he was able to. And it still makes no sense to me that he didn’t play for the tie and overtime,rather than what had to be a much less than 50% chance to win in regulation with the 2 point conversion.
No conspiracy with him and his crew. They just aren’t very good. The NFL would rather hire females, minorities, and their cronies/relatives.
Exactly
No sense explaining to this guy. He’s a mess
We don’t know any of that for a fact. We do know for a fact that #70 was declared eligible not #68. That is the only fact we know.
Is it fair to say that Detroit did not make it clear of the eligibility of the player to the ref?
So worst case scenario, the Lions’s did not communicate it properly…..best case scenario, the Lion’s tried to confuse th situation.
The Lions admitted that they wanted some confusion. To the point that Campbell told the refs what to expect in a pre game scrum.
Going to cost the Lions a first round bye and make them travel back to Dallas for a re match.
So you are saying? A ref that worked the game for 25 years had a bad day? No chance the Lions tried to play the situation?
There is a clip on the ESPN website with Rex Ryan, on this play. His claim is that the coaches meet with the refs before each game, and alert them to any unusual or trick plays that are in the playbook for that game. Unless the Lions' coaches somehow forgot to mention this play, the refs were well aware of it.
Yeah, it was really ridiculous and sad how that guy was going out of his way to defend his refree buddy. The way he was referring to the ref on a first name basis you could tell that it was personal for him. I never paid attention to that rules analyst before but I can't take him serious ever again after watching that.
Well it's one thing to discuss the trick play where we are going to line-up an O lineman as an eligible receiver and throw him the ball if we try a two-point conversion. It's another thing to also tell the ref we are going to use deception and confusion in reporting who is eligible so that the defense won't know who to look for. I wonder if they went as far to explain that.
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I don’t thinks refs are perfect. It’s a tough job but it is obvious that Detroit miscommunicated or tried to deceive the refs/Dallas. I am certain this is not the first time you have blamed the refs for an outcome you did not want.
You mean the ref and crew that the NFL just banned from working the playoffs as punishment for what happened last night? The same ref and crew that ESPN wrote an article about earlier this year because of how many game altering mistakes they had made? Nah he’s been a ref for 25 years, he couldn’t have botched that call.
That’s why Dan Campbell explained the play to the refs in detail BEFORE the game. Those plays are worthless without some level of deception. The ineligible that was required to report did so. The ineligible that ran onto the field while 68 was reporting to the ref did not report as eligible because he was not going to be eligible. The ref just straight up blew it. Had he taken 10 seconds to make sure he got it right this never would have happened, instead he just rushed through the whole sequence for no reason. The NFL has acknowledged the call was blown as, per leaks, they have banned this ref crew from the playoffs as punishment.
He had three lineman coming to him. Two walking up and a third running at him from the sidelines, and this third guy was the one who had reported eligible on multiple past occasions. If anything, he was paying too much attention to everything that was going on and seeing the guy running at him from the other side of the field.
Sure Campbell told the refs to be aware of the tackle eligible pass play, there’s no way he told them about sending the three tackles over to confuse Dallas on who was eligible. The Lions added a wrinkle to the process that could cause human error, with a ref crew who everyone knows is bad and it cost them.
I thought the whole point of telling the ref who is eligible was to enable the ref to alert the defense to the fact that the player was eligible. So how can they use deception, since the ref has to tell the defense who is eligible? They are not trying to confuse the ref, and the ref has to inform the defense.
Bottom line is 68 Decker told the ref he was the eligible player. 70 Skipper did not report as eligible. Everything that happened after that is on the ref.
