The FIX is in!!!

[cheeno]

To the "its fixed" people. Who exactly is fixing it. Who is benefiting.

Is it the NFL? Is this some grand scheme to make more money when the TV contract is up in 2022? Will networks offer more money in 2023 because the Cowboys advanced in the 2014/15 playoffs?

Is it Jerry paying off an official? Why would Jerry risk losing the most valuable NFL franchise to win a game? He makes more money keeping the franchise then he will on one additional road game (which is all this guaranteed).

Not sure who is fixing all these games....Need help understanding that.

I'm not a NFL is fixed guy but...Did the NBA fix games?

 

[Mitchrapp]

I'm not a NFL is fixed guy but...Did the NBA fix games?

They didn't fix games just some refs would call fouls on certain guys they disliked. I think. So why the first call in the first place if it was fixed..maybe only some of the refs were in on this fix?

 

[grandy]

Incompetent officiating is a much more plausible explanation than fixing.

Can someone explain to me why a crew that never worked together all season is put in place for WC weekend?

 

[cheeno]

They didn't fix games just some refs would call fouls on certain guys they disliked. I think. So why the first call in the first place if it was fixed..maybe only some of the refs were in on this fix?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal

 

[Mitchrapp]

Incompetent officiating is a much more plausible explanation than fixing.

Can someone explain to me why a crew that never worked together all season is put in place for WC weekend?

This. I said this when the game started: They said the "all star" refs get the later round games and we're stuck with refs who never work with each other.

 

[cheeno]

Incompetent officiating is a much more plausible explanation than fixing.

Can someone explain to me why a crew that never worked together all season is put in place for WC weekend?

They put together crews based on high regular season grades at each referee position. It is supposed to make them better.

 

[Mitchrapp]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal

Okay thanks. Don't really watch the NBA and I didn't know about this. I do know some guy hated Iverson and always called it the other way and a few like him..

 

[grandy]

They put together crews based on high regular season grades at each referee position. It is supposed to make them better.

Good Job NFL

Perhaps they should evaluate crew performance rather than individual performance.

 

[cheeno]

Incompetent officiating is a much more plausible explanation than fixing.

Can someone explain to me why a crew that never worked together all season is put in place for WC weekend?

We all must have read Bill Barnwell's piece. But to pick up the flag that late was not incompetence. It was a black swan. The rest of the calls, no holding, illegal contact, no unsportsmanlike ...sure incompetence. But we have never seen anything like that in football, no one has, not the former head of officiating Mike Pererra, not Strahan, Howie Long.

 

[cheeno]

Good Job NFL

Perhaps they should evaluate crew performance rather than individual performance.

That's what Pererra said yesterday and it will happen. Some new rules will come out of this game, that's one, the other is PI challenges.

 

[Mitchrapp]

A new rule for the Lions called the real staff so Lions don't get screwed rule.

 

[503]

I agree with a lot of you guys admitting we didn't make the plays needed to be made to win but...At the end of the day Detroit got robbed.

If the critical and correct call was made the whole game changes. Nobody knows what the outcome of the game would of been but we all know the game changes...It's a tuff way to lose and a big pill to swallow with what occurred in Jerry's World. Every Detroit fan has a right to be pissed and feel they've been robbed.

That one play has all American sports talk shows talking about it. Even Skip B a Dal homer knows they got away with it. Only person in the media defending Dal on that play is Michael Irving.

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'm not a NFL is fixed guy but...Did the NBA fix games?

It has always been my impression that NBA seem to make calls, if games are close anyway, to make calls in key situations that will benefit the league and the broadcast networks as far as ratings. If it happens I imagine it's an unspoken just understood kind of thing - plausible deniability.

The primary thing that gave me that impression was the favorable treatment that Michael Jordan always seem to get, or at least that's the way it always looked to me.

Is there an element of that in the NFL? Was there any of that going on yesterday?

I don't know. But I don't think there's anyone who would argue that Dallas versus Green Bay next week is not a "sexy" match up for the league and the networks, more so than any match up that would have resulted from the Lions advancing.

 

[biggunsbob]

Jaw's on espn just said it best..... In the NFL rules if you are not playing the ball and you touch the receiver it is a flag period.... So who cares if he was face guarding which is legal... He made contact period... The flag was thrown the call made....

 

[Mitchrapp]

I think everyone in the world, outside Michael Irving, thought it as a bad call.

 

[biggunsbob]

I think everyone in the world, outside Michael Irving, thought it as a bad call.

Trent Dilfer and Cowterd don't ... CT keeps bring up the Pettigrew face mask and all trent keeps saying it was a bad throw by Matt and no flag should have been thrown...

Cowterd also keeps blaming Caldwell and the Lions for not going for it on 4th down nor realizing how bad our line has been all season...

Both are Big time Romo fans...

 

[kingofdetroit57]

Terrible non-call that definitely hurt us, if not cost us the game. It was definitely PI. I didn't even see the nonsense with Dez after that which wasn't called either. I can't recall ever hearing something called, announced, and marched off, then overturned and nothing much is said about it. What the hell was that!?!?!? How could neither of those things get flagged at a critical point like that?

It sure felt like we outplayed Dallas by a good margin and yet still came away with a loss. Hard not to feel like it was fixed when you see crap like that, then see the nonsense explanations from the ref and see the head of officiating partying on the Cowboys party bus. Not a good look for the NFL.

All that stuff said, our special teams really stunk up the joint yesterday. How Ross has a roster spot is beyond me. His stupid 3yd return instead of taking the touchback was absurd, as was our damned 10yd punt. Thankfully I had walked into the kitchen during the punt or the TV may not have survived. I sure hope we can get the ST tightened up for next year, because they definitely cost us a game or two this season.

 

[adam86107]

There could/should have been three flags thrown on that play. There was holding on Pettigrew before the interference happened and then Dez running onto the field with his helmet off. The fact that the refs only called one and then reversed it after announcing to the world that it was interference is BS. It is also BS that Caldwell didn't try and go for it on 4 and 1 instead of trying to draw them offsides. It is also BS that our punter went into shank mode, didn't he do that in another big game, maybe last year? This team wasn't going much further with this pathetic O-line but I was really hoping to break that playoff win streak with this one.

 

[biggunsbob]

Harder schedule next season our best guys getting older... Suh leaving...We had a shot at a deep playoff run this year...It gets tiring rooting for the Lions... To have to overcome bad ownership for years and yesterday just flat out sucks...

 

[Mitchrapp]

Trent Dilfer and Cowterd don't ... CT keeps bring up the Pettigrew face mask and all trent keeps saying wasit was a bad throw by Matt and no flag should have been thrown...

Both are Big time Romo fans...

Well..that's one reason I don't watch a sports network after a loss like this. Nothing good ever comes out of it. I wouldn't see a big problem if they threw the flag then picked it up. But they threw it, called it and then picked it up.

On to 2015.