Week Fourteen: Dallas Cowboys (6-5-1) @ Detroit Lions (7-5)

[IdahoBert]

Great win and it’s great to read the comments. I didn’t watch this game all the way through, because I took off almost an hour to watch the newest episode of Pluribus on Apple TV. But watching this game and my favorite TV show at pretty much the same time made for a good evening. 

[IdahoBert]

I also just realized that because the Lions are playing the Rams on December 14, I might actually be able to watch this game on my local FOX affiliate because FOX usually only lets me watch “regional“ or West Coast games because I live in freaking Idaho. 

[Motown Bombers]

Literally all the teams ahead of the Lions play each other. Some teams are going to lose. If the Lions go 3-1 they should be a lock. 

Edited 21 hours ago by Motown Bombers

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Jason_R]

Tom Kennedy did get a game ball. And the locker room erupted. 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[lordstanley]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Sports_Freak]

9 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Credit to Kennedy for getting us a short field with his kickoff return. Very good job.

And he got a game ball!! It looks like he's a big favorite in the locker room. Much respect!!

[gehringer_2]

10 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

 

game of attrition.

[RedRamage]

12 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

I know replay assist overturned it, but how in the world do you call that a fumble?

I think this is one problem with replay... now just let me state that I think replay review is overall a good thing and the game is better because of it. But, there is certain consequence it because of the way the rules are written.

I think that refs tend to let plays happen perhaps a bit more knowing that replay will fix it if they get it wrong. Taking this play for example. A ref might think: "Oh, I think that was a pass attempt, but I'm not 100% sure. If I call it incomplete and so blow the play dead, but it ends up a fumble, that'll be a mess. But if I assume it's a fumble and it ends up an incomplete pass, replay will be able to easily fix it." So, the ref lets it play out because replay to fix incomplete is easy, but replay to fix on a fumble after blowing the play dead is much harder.

In theory, that makes sense and it's a good way to go. But in practice, this can be problematic. On this play there was clearly no question that it was a forward pass. But what if it wasn't super clear? What if there were no really good camera angles? Now there's potential that what the ref(s) thought was an incomplete pass but let play out because replay will fix it now is trapped by rules that say there has to be clear evidence to overturn.

[RedRamage]

12 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

They also missed the Dallas player driving Saylors head into the turf. 

Wanna know what's really weird? I pulled the game in youtube TV at this entire drive is missing from the NFL version of the game. The NFL Network version goes right from the Cowboys FG at 9:18 to the start of the 'Boys next drive at 8:21. I had to go back to the Amazon Prime version to rewatch the drive. 

It starts to get increasingly hard not to suspect some funny business when the refs miss Saylors getting his head shoved into the turf, then miss offsides, then miss a possible DPI on the same drive... only for the NFL Network recording of the game to just not include that drive at all.

[Jason_R]

How is it possible that this season’s injury luck is on track to be as bad as last year’s? 

[RedRamage]

11 hours ago, Adullin said:

Why is he dropping so many passes this year 

There was a rumor floating around that he injured his wrist earlier in the season. Obviously just a rumor, but it might explain it somewhat.

[RedRamage]

11 hours ago, sagnam said:

That might be the dumbest challenge I’ve ever seen.

Actually, I don't think so. I think it was a smart challenge. Dallas needed to start using timeouts to ensure they got the ball back with enough time, so there would have been some good logic in using a timeout at this point anyway. Instead, you use a challenge. 

Worst case senario: You lose the challenge and you lose a TO that you would likely have used anyway right here.
Best case senario: You win and "gain" a TO.

[TP_Fan]

Somehow they are more injured this year than last. Is it the training staff or the turf?  What is the issue?  It can’t be a coincidence that they are the most injured team, by man games lost, two years in a row. This is an organizational issue. 

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

game of attrition.

Super Bowl window is closed.  Trade everyone.  Rebuild through the draft.   They didn't go 15-2 this year. 

[Motor City Sonics]

23 minutes ago, TP_Fan said:

Somehow they are more injured this year than last. Is it the training staff or the turf?  What is the issue?  It can’t be a coincidence that they are the most injured team, by man games lost, two years in a row. This is an organizational issue. 

They play hard

[slothfacekilla]

It feels like almost every team has been pretty injured this season from what I've seen

[Mr.TaterSalad]

13 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

They play hard

Every team in the league plays hard. There has to be something besides this. Maybe they play too intense or aggressively? Maybe they have a bad strength, training, and conditioning staff? Maybe it's For Field turf?

[Motor City Sonics]

Just now, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Every team in the league plays hard. There has to be something besides this. Maybe they play too intense or aggressively? Maybe they have a bad strength, training, and conditioning staff? Maybe it's For Field turf?

Running through brick walls for coach adds up. 

[Sports_Freak]

 

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

 

No PupCups,

Oh, the humanity

[sagnam]

1 hour ago, RedRamage said:

Actually, I don't think so. I think it was a smart challenge. Dallas needed to start using timeouts to ensure they got the ball back with enough time, so there would have been some good logic in using a timeout at this point anyway. Instead, you use a challenge. 

Worst case senario: You lose the challenge and you lose a TO that you would likely have used anyway right here.
Best case senario: You win and "gain" a TO.

Yeah, turns out that’s true. But the review was to see if the player was out of bounds. He wasn’t. The clock should have been restarted. The fact that a challenge also stops the clock same as a timeout, win or lose, is stupid. You could theoretically challenge minor things and if you win end up with 3 extra timeouts.