The Divisional round continues, Cowboys at Packers

[pstall]

The definition isn't in question.

[rodeo]

The Cowboys losing in large part on a questionable ref call is the best poetic justice one could ever want after so so so many games being handed to them. Think back on all the times we've played them. The phantom PIs, in particular, every single game.

[Goondal]

Cowboy fans will be screaming about it for months to come.

Works for me

 

Me too, I love irony

[gettlemanjack]

NFL.com Marc Sessler @ MarcSesslerNFL 18m

Total robbery .

#GatorsRise @ Gators1UF

Biggest robbery call I have ever seen in the

replay era @DezBryant

Devrey @ MrDevToo

straight robbery

phelan @ phelannrone

the call on Dez catch was robbery plain and simple

kuhrizma. @ kuhrizma_ime

ROBBERY

Skip Bayless @ RealSkipBayless

ROBBERY !

Travis Parsons @Parsons_T13

Highway robbery

Ike N. @ Just_like_Ike

Robbery in Lambeau.

Curve Gotti @ Nomi_B

That was robbery !

M.E. @Manny_Pena

Robbery . Absolute robbery

Juno Gwaup @Juno_Runyabandz

ROBBERY !

ThrowUpTheX™ @ ThrowUpTheX

Complete robbery !

Shaggy @ shaggy757

That was a catch. If they overturn it that's highway robbery

[TheRed]

I think you are going to be disappointed

 

The Panthers could have and should have at least played the Seahawks close down to the 4th quarter.

 

Seahawks are certainly beatable, yes even in Seattle. It's just a stadium like any other.

 

Also let's not forget the fact that Green Bay has a coach who knows you need to score touchdowns instead of playing for field goals. The Packers should not have trouble putting up points, it should be a close game. Anything can happen though of course, that's football.

[Mr. Scot]

The Cowboys losing in large part on a questionable ref call is the best poetic justice one could ever want after so so so many games being handed to them. Think back on all the times we've played them. The phantom PIs, in particular, every single game.

Especially after last week.

[OneBadCat]

I didn't get to watch an actual replay on TV just a gif on my phone because im at work but it looked to me that he made 3 steps before crashing down. Also someone tell me this because I couldn't tell. Did the ball break the plane before he lost control? Looked like it could have been a TD to me.

[pstall]

To be honest, it was either going to be a TD or an incomplete pass. Because there was no football move it wasn't going to down by contact situation.

If he had kept his hand under the ball and the ball popped up in the manner that it did and he finally secured the catch in the end zone, I truly believe it would have been a TD. I guess they deemed the ground caused the incompletion as he used the ground to complete the catch.

Right. What I'm getting at is the contact between the two players. It seems to me because there was contact that was it. The play is done because Deal is down by contact which means he could not have made a "football move". I think that rule is a convenient out for refs and it doesn't factor the contact I'm talking about.

Gutsy call that didn't pan out based on an odd rule that I don't think truly applied.

[gettlemanjack]

[CelibatePimp]

Shitty rule if you ask me but knowing the rule, I would say Dez should have focused on securing the catch and not trying to make the big play.

[Anybodyhome]

He had the ball wrapped in the crook of his left arm against his shoulder pad. The point of the ball was directly vertical and when he hit the ground, the point of the ball hit the ground, hence, it popped up. It was circled on the replay slo-mo by Aikman even before they brought in the former ref to comment.

 

Pretty plain and easy to see if you're not blinded by fan-glasses.

[HeatCheck]

Right. What I'm getting at is the contact between the two players. It seems to me because there was contact that was it. The play is done because Deal is down by contact which means he could not have made a "football move". I think that rule is a convenient out for refs and it doesn't factor the contact I'm talking about.

Gutsy call that didn't pan out based on an odd rule that I don't think truly applied.

 

Sure, he couldn't make a football move but that doesn't mean he couldn't make the catch.

 

Not that this was a diving catch, but receivers dive to catch the ball all the time (not making a "football move") and complete the catch.

[pstall]

He had the ball wrapped in the crook of his left arm against his shoulder pad. The point of the ball was directly vertical and when he hit the ground, the point of the ball hit the ground, hence, it popped up. It was circled on the replay slo-mo by Aikman even before they brought in the former ref to comment.

Pretty plain and easy to see if you're not blinded by fan-glasses.

I thought he lost control trying ro score, not when he first hit the ground.

[HeatCheck]

I thought he lost control trying ro score, not when he first hit the ground.

 

That was really all one motion. Yes his forearm hit the ground before the hand with the ball but that's called securing the ball all the way to down to the ground.