This may really be the reason.

i forgot who you pull for.

niners are one step ahead of everyone but nobody will beat Balitmore.

The washingon deadskins.

You may be right Buzz. Baltimore is killing all the best teams.

I'm glad the Cowboys won but the pizz poor zebra officiating continues across the league.

Body cams and microphone on the officials?

Ok, lets sale there was not a breakdown in communication with Deck and the official, they means the cowboys would have been told Decker (who is a DT and lined up at DT) was an eligible receiver, and would have been covered, maybe intercepted?

The whole debate is pretty funny. It’s obvious the ref mistook who reported and who didn’t. The ref said over the loud speaker not once but twice number 70 is reporting eligible, as they were coming out of the huddle. I can understand some frustration from lions fans but there’s some ownership that needs to be taken from every player in the huddle and every member of the coaching staff that knew what was about to happen and what players (and their numbers) were involved, especially numbers 70 and 68. How do you hear that over the loud speaker and not say something. I think they were trying to confuse the defense with multiple linemen talking to the ref but they ended up confusing the refs and themselves. The ref has two guys trying to talk to him and a third one running up saying something as well. If I was a lions fan I’d be more upset about the coach rolling the dice 3 times.

Whenever humans are involved in anything, there will be stuff like this happen. It's inevitable.

As far as the Cowboys, like Jimmy Johnson said Saturday:

"Millions of fans love them, and millions of fans despise them."

And if Dan Campbell hadn’t decided to start a one man %^&* measuring contest after the penalty, the Lions might have won the game anyway….and and kept their chance at the #1 seed, at worst, the #2….nope….#5.

If he wanted to be angry at anyone, he should look in the mirror.

He tried to get too cute with his players checking in with the referee trying to throw the Cowboys off. It backfired on him. I'll admit , he;s pretty good at whining..

If this would have happed to the Cowgirls, you all would be whistling a different tune, I'm sure.

I woulda agreed with whatever Troy said.

Yeah you nailed it. And Dan admits it here, a failed trick play. It is amazing how the media got it all wronge.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...as-to-who-was-eligible-on-two-point-play

It wasn't too long ago that it did happen.

Terrell Owens made a beautiful catch that would have probably allowed the team to win the game and move forward in the playoffs.

But......

Lions Coach stated they were trying to confuse Dallas defense, they got caught in their own deception, which is usually what happens to those trying to be deceptive.

He tried to get too cute with his players checking in with the referee trying to throw the Cowboys off. It backfired on him. I'll admit , he;s pretty good at whining.. banana

He went over the play before the game with the refs so they knew to expect it. It’s 100% on the ref that announced the wrong player.

Wrong…

After the game, Lions coach Dan Campbell said that he explained the play to the officials before the game. The question becomes whether Campbell explained the play itself, or whether Campbell explained his plan to set the play up with an effort to confuse the Cowboys as to who was, and wasn’t, eligible.

Per a source with knowledge of the situation, Brad Allen was not present for the pregame meeting with Campbell. That’s standard procedure. It’s not known whether Campbell explained that a shell game of sorts would be played before the play to confuse the Cowboys. It’s hard to imagine Campbell articulating that.

Think about it. “Look,” Campbell might have said, “we’ve got a play in the game plan tonight that includes throwing a pass to a tackle. But here’s what we’re gonna do. We’ll be making it look like a different guy is reporting as eligible than the one who is really reporting as eligible, because we want to confuse the Cowboys about who is and isn’t eligible. So when that happens, go along with it, OK?”

It’s hard to imagine Campbell being so candid about the trick that the Lions were trying to pull. Articulating it that way sounds a little off. It sounds a little wrong. It sounds a little like something a team probably shouldn’t be trying to do. Like something that is on the wrong side of the line of what is and isn’t fair.

Regardless, the only way the Lions could have properly prepared Allen for that moment would have been to get Allen in on the ruse. He clearly wasn’t. The Lions ran their plan so well that it confused Allen. And, frankly, it’s on the Lions to find the sweet spot between confusing the opponent and not confusing the officials.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...ange-procedure-for-reporting-as-eligible

Crazy Ray knew how to deal with the Redskins

Great picture above. I have a few stories of Crazy Ray.

Not, he did not go over the deceptive part with the Refs, they could have had no part of such shenanigans.

Yeah, you can watch the same officiating team in Steelers/Ravens game today

Really...........This $hit happened a week ago.