Cowboys shut out Eagles in spite of horrid officiating
by HutHut on Jan 3, 2010 7:20 PM CST
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I am very proud of our 'Boys for dismantling the doucher Eagles. I hate them more than any other team. I stand happily corrected in my May prediction of an 8-8 season with no playoffs. This Defense is getting saltier every game and should put the fear of God into every team they face.
How 'bout them Cowboys!!!!!!!!!!!!
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BIG BIG BIW WIN!!!
The Offensive line played it’s best game of the season. Personally, I wouldn’t insert Colombo back in because the O-line is playing at such a high level.
"Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as hell but can't play football worth a damn."
- John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
absolutely is right
Columbo can’t be replaced, but Free is doing an exceptional job, providing protection and a great hole opener when needed for the running game. I say finish Free out and start Columbo strong next season.
Horrible officiating??
You can’t be serious! Coming from a football official (although only HS), number one, you are not going to make every call correctly. As a fan you should know that. The players know it better than anybody. Just talk to any player and they will tell you that’s just the way it goes. Also, on that play where Romo got hit real late, those are very often the easiest to miss for an official because that head Ref is trained to watch the QB through the play for a second or two. Once everything clears out he is naturally going to take his eyes off the QB and look to see what took place, see if his other officials have anything to relay to him, and multiple other things that he is responsible for. So if he took his eyes off of Romo (rightfully so that late in the play) then of course he is going to miss it and you can’t make the call even if you see Romo laying on the ground and your assumption is he didn’t end up there by falling without the help of the opponent.
No seriously
This particular officiating crew is terrible. Ron Winter’s crew is the worst in the league for sure. Remember the Phantom tripping penalty called against the Vikings when they faced the Steelers game? That’s not the only one, there have been mucho bad calls by this crew. I doubt they’ll work the playoffs though, hopefully.
Dallas got
called for the most penalties and it happened alot on big plays. I will repeat what John Madden said one night on TV , “You can call holding on every single play, it happens that often”…….well Dallas did get the bulk of the calls against them today. So atleast the Eagle fans won’t have that as a excuse why they were dominated.
"When people talk about Super Bowl dynasties they mention the 1970's Steelers, 1980's 49ers, 1990's Cowboys and the current New England Patriots, but nobody has dominated the Super Bowl like Anheuser-Busch. In recent years, Budweiser has been the MVP of Super Bowl advertising -- making another company the favorite to win the Ad Meter poll was never an option."
Simon Noble
I didn't notice the penalty situation being that bad
Romo apparently has no cred with the referees. He gets some strange grounding calls and hardly EVER gets roughing the passer calls.
The one roughing call romo got seemed ticky-tack to me
Lifetime Cowboys Fan from the Swamps of Jersey
o i agree
but just in general, he seems to take TONS of late, way after the throw hits compared to other qbs.
The officiating stunk ..
I was thinking the same thing as the title of the fan shot.
They called Gurode for barely rocking. Then the Eagles’ center does a semi-earthquake move and the Cowboy is flagged for going offside. It was terrible!
Then the 2 no calls .. one with Romo getting hit late and there was a hold as the Eagle guard tackled one of our defenders. … Gotta hope for even calls next week!
by spadesking131313 on Jan 3, 2010 9:29 PM CST up reply actions
Have to disagree...
on that roughing the passer that actually GOT called. it was textbook – hit a QB in the face with your hand, expect it to be called. Romo was blasted late, but it at least LOOKED incidental, although I’m almost certain it wasn’t.
+1 to foyes boys though – our drives got stalled in spite of ourselves, rather than the Philly D.
+1.....any hit to the face no matter how minor its a 15 yarder....cant say I agree with it, but thats the rule
"Austin made the play, Austin saved the day" Brad Sham
+1
A QB gets touched in the NFL or NCAA in the helmet and that call happens.
by The Immortal Iron Fist AKA AFB on Jan 3, 2010 7:59 PM CST up reply actions
completely disagree
The officiating was pretty good in my opinion. I think they did a great job and didn’t have any problems with any calls made or not made. I think the one where Romo went down was questionable because he really ran into the defender, but the defender did extend his arms out a little bit
Super Bowl party at my place, Dallas vs. ?, who's in?
Not really
The one on Anderson was debatable, I’ll give you that. They never showed a real good replay of it but it did look like he held up the defender just a tad. Could have been a no call for sure but as someone stated earlier, holding can be called on every play (mainly because of blocks like Anderson’s on this play) and it was called on this play.
The other play was a definite hold as the Cowboy OLineman was making an attempted tackle on the defender.
What was complete BS though..
was that the O-Lineman didn’t have to do what he did and the play would have never got negated. That’s the type of dumb plays this team can not afford to make and the coaches have to drill that kind of stuff into them in the film room. I just don’t know if the coaches do a good job of that though.
Dallas has
been a team that commits tons of penalties on offense all season, not sure what the deal is but can count on getting 65+ yards in penalties on offense every game
Super Bowl party at my place, Dallas vs. ?, who's in?
I'm fine with false starts.
Some of our holding today was unnecessary though.
On another note, if our players were pansies like the giants’, they would’ve thrown a hissy fit over peters going after jenkins out of bounds. That was bush league.
Am I the only one then who saw the Eagles LT
definitely move early on a play? It was an incomplete pass near the end of the half, I think.
They even replayed it but the announcers didn’t notice.
Pessimists say the cup is half-empty, while optimists say it's half-full. Well, isn't it both? Realist Larry, 2009
although to be fair
I notice flozell moving that early every other game
Larry he did that on more than one occasion
but I think they did get the call right when Gurode was breathing and called him for a false start lol
"When people talk about Super Bowl dynasties they mention the 1970's Steelers, 1980's 49ers, 1990's Cowboys and the current New England Patriots, but nobody has dominated the Super Bowl like Anheuser-Busch. In recent years, Budweiser has been the MVP of Super Bowl advertising -- making another company the favorite to win the Ad Meter poll was never an option."
Simon Noble
I actually thought it was maybe the best crew Dallas has had all season
The no-call on the guy that hit Romo late was the only mistake I was mad about. Looked like he had time to pull up before he hit Romo.
Drago says, "We must break you!"
Penalties are always a Cowboys weak point
I go in every game thinking we are gonna get more against us then for us. It makes me less aggravated when the game ends. There were bogus calls/no calls but ehh, we stomped ‘em. One less thing to hear about like last game. They blamed their loss on the refs, can’t do it this time
Marine by trade, Cowboys fan by birth.
Up to this game a lot of us had been so happy about the reduced penalties, too
Although they overcame them today, I really hope they don’t have so many on the OLine the rest of the way.
As the games mean more, each series, each drive, becomes full of pressure, and too many of those might lead to frustration.
Pessimists say the cup is half-empty, while optimists say it's half-full. Well, isn't it both? Realist Larry, 2009
by Realist Larry on Jan 3, 2010 11:47 PM CST up reply actions
very true, but we will just have to see how that plays out I guess
Marine by trade, Cowboys fan by birth.
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