More Salt for the Wound

by Philosopher on Jan 15, 2008 8:26 PM CST Comment 7 comments

Just when I think I am kind of starting to put the loss behind me, I read stuff like this which causes me to cringe, swear, and throw sharp metallic objects:

From Mickey Spag's e-mail column today regarding that grounding penalty we got hit with:

By the way, and this will hurt now even worse, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said on Tuesday the club heard back from the NFL on the grounding penalty, and were told that shouldn't have been a grounding penalty because he was not under duress and had the right to throw the ball away. The officials evidently blew that one...

http://www.dallascowboys.com/news.cf...

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better never than late.

There are two Adrian Petersons, but there is only one Marion Barber.

by Nelson on Jan 15, 2008 8:36 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

I am very curious about 2 more

Why did Eli not get a grounding penalty when it was quite obvious he was under duress and there was no one near that pass?

Why did DWare get another offsides? Sure looked identical to the Green Bay wrong call.

2 very big plays

by huslinone on Jan 15, 2008 9:21 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

My thoughts exactly

"Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win."

by DaveTroll on Jan 15, 2008 9:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

how bout 15 yards on Bigg Davis

That was BS as well....the play was legal to engage a block on a defender trying to regain his footing, before the play was whistled over....that was a huge play.

True Cowboys diehard since 1975.

by BoyzRback07 on Jan 15, 2008 10:00 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

And the Ware off-sides...

Would imagine he'll be getting another letter this week!

Although I will say that we got the benefit if the doubt on at least two (what could have been) false start penalties late in the game. I think the officials were starting to feel sorry for our lineman getting penalties when it was a delayed snap that was making it look like a false start.

by Fargo Cowboys on Jan 16, 2008 8:34 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Agree

I saw several occasions where it looked like we jumped and they didn't call it. I can remember cringing the second I saw it, then relaxing when no flag came out. We also got the benefit of the doubt on some possible delay of game calls that they let go. The play-clock was clearly at zero on a couple.

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by Dave Halprin on Jan 16, 2008 8:44 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs

What about...

In the 4th quarter when they were trying to run the 2 minute drill and it was around 1 minute left and they were trying to spot the ball and let 20 seconds run off

Cowboys fan since 1978.. I was 3 years old

by Mullin on Jan 16, 2008 12:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs