I think it’s hilarious in those situations when the umpire runs up and moves the ball a couple of inches like he has a ******* clue where it should be.
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Look at how many times they called dem Cowboys for encroachment/neutral zone infractions and then realize they probably only called half of them.
The NFC East is garbage.
The NFC East is garbage.
And they aren’t supposed to move until the play is over? Legit question btw, I don’t know.
I know I’m the target of the cowboy haters since I’m the only one posting, so go for it, I can take it. Especially from a bunch of Viking fans.
I've never understood why there is an expectation that the refs will spot the ball much faster on certain plays than others. At any other point in the game, wouldn't that spot have taken something like 5 seconds longer? Is there some rule governing this? Or are the refs spotting balls as quickly as possible every play and I just don't notice?
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Who's targeting you?
The ref has to get up there. He was probably as surprised as anyone to see that play call. It was a very risky call and the time it takes for the ref to spot the ball should have been taken into account before they made the play call. It's not instantaneous.
Better overall team iirc...2011 all of my Packer friends were 'but turnovers' when it came to their suspect defense and it took that playoff game to convince them that relying on turnovers doesn't work.
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If you don’t think that ref was doing everything he could to spot that ball as fast as possible…. I’ve got nothing for you.
It was a stupid play call in that Dak cannot run that far and think he could possibly get another play off. Dallas lost the game all by themselves. They were actually lucky Bosa got hurt or Dak would have been sacked even more.
I highly recommend Matt Nagy for the Cowboys spot. He ran a very tight ship and put a team out there that never beat themselves.
I'm sure the fans of all 31 other teams will sign off on this too.
He was shocked to the point he couldn’t move?
Look, it’s obviously a bad play call that risks exactly what happened, but the spot was slow, slow enough to probably make the difference in one more play.
The ball should have been handed to the ref to spot not the center.
You should probably listen to what Orlovsky said about that play. First, it was an insanely stupid play call. Second, it was insanely stupid for Dak to hand the ball to his center to spot it himself - literally said you are never taught in that situation to ever do anything other than to hand the ball back to the official, and yet they did that stupidity anyway. With the insanity of everything that went down on that final play they would have never gotten the play off regardless because they never would have been allowed to snap the ball until the ref was clear of the LOS anyway. This isn't on the refs - this is on the Cowboys for handling those 6 seconds in the absolute worst way imaginable.
