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Week Seventeen: Detroit Lions (11-4) @ Dallas Cowboys (10-5)


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1 minute ago, RandyMarsh said:

Looking at the replays and I do think the Lions got screwed but maybe I'm being naive but I don't think the ref did it on purpose. I think Decker clearly told him he was reporting as eligible but it does look like Skipper came running onto the field at the same time so the ref took it as Skipper. 

I don’t think it was on purpose, but it was plain incompetence. The Lions told them pregame about this play. They then ran the play. He still ****ed up. Absolute incompetence.

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7 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

No I’m positive he means to the officials. Every game, before the game, the officials have a cadence with each head coach. One of the questions they ask is “any trick plays? Things we might not see every day?”

Based off of DC’s response, I am 100% positive he told them to expect this play. And they ****ed it up anyway.

I would agree after seeing this. 
 

 

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I'm unnecessarily pissed of at a game I expected the Lions to lose, and after having already won their division. And it's not even at the 2-point conversion cock-up or the refs: it's all Derrick Barnes. I truly believe that if he sacks Dak for a safety, the game is over based on how well the defense played. I still don't know how it's even possible for him NOT to sack him there.

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5 minutes ago, TP_Fan said:

I’m a ref blamer with the rest of them.  But it’s one play that put way too much trust in the officials. The ref even pointed at skipper.   Lions shouldn’t have even needed to be in that situation. This wasn’t a ref game.  

Yes it was, mostly, the refs game in the end. They literally called back a potential game deciding play. If you hit a buzzer beater three and the officials call it back on an incorrect decision you don't sit around and think about the missed layup at 4:02 in the 2nd quarter. You rightly recognize the incorrect call by the officials at the end of the game. 

The same goes here. You can breakdown this game and pass around the pie of blame. But the fact is the refs get the biggest slice of blame because they directly took points off the board, at the end of the game, and potentially, likely, cost us the game. 

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3 minutes ago, TP_Fan said:

I’m a ref blamer with the rest of them.  But it’s one play that put way too much trust in the officials. The ref even pointed at skipper.   Lions shouldn’t have even needed to be in that situation. This wasn’t a ref game.  

No I disagree with that thinking. It’s like when a good goal would be waved off against the Wings in playoff overtime and people would say they had other chances to win. When you’re playing a high calibre opponent on the road, no one can be expected to win comfortably or with points and plays to spare. That’s why they call football a game of inches. 

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Just now, MichiganCardinal said:

I really truly think this Lions squad is different.

They aren’t going to just take this on the chin. Detroit vs. EVERYBODY.

I think they take this, they remember this, and they make a run. I really do.

youre very fired up about this.

in the end it wont matter.  it didnt matter in 2014 when the lions got screwed.  it didnt matter on the calvin johnson play.  it didnt matter on the seattle screw job.  the narrative wont play.

that's why it really hurts.  because in the end it wont matter in three weeks.  all it really means is that the lions wont be the #1 or #2 seed and they'll likely only get one home playoff game because of it.

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Just now, MichiganCardinal said:

Did Decker report? Yes. Two people can’t report.

I think it’s that simple.

then how do they determine who reported?  is it a timing thing?  did skipper report first?  did decker then report late because skipper had already reported?

the nfl will have some statement on it at some point and we'll get the ref's opinion.  skipper was pretty heated on the sideline.

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Just now, buddha said:

youre very fired up about this.

in the end it wont matter.  it didnt matter in 2014 when the lions got screwed.  it didnt matter on the calvin johnson play.  it didnt matter on the seattle screw job.  the narrative wont play.

that's why it really hurts.  because in the end it wont matter in three weeks.  all it really means is that the lions wont be the #1 or #2 seed and they'll likely only get one home playoff game because of it.

I am. I’ll probably settle down after a sleep. But I’m as fired up as I was the last time they got ****ed against the Cowboys.

It won’t matter in terms of this game. They are now 11-5. That is what it is. But I do think it matters to this team. They play well as the underdog, as the team that no one believes in. I think this is a whole tank of kerosene to that fire.

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7 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

A ref made a mistake and it cost the Lions the game.

SONFL

Another black eye for the NFL. I guess legalized gambling had nothing to do with it. Throwing a flag 3 minutes after the play is over. If the player was ineligible,  a flag should have came out immediately. Big time wrestling credibility.

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