🚨 OFFICIATING CONTROVERSY 🚨 Negative reactions to the call in Lions-Cowboys ending | SportsCenter

🚨 OFFICIATING CONTROVERSY 🚨 Negative reactions to the call in Lions-Cowboys ending | SportsCenter
Adam Schefter, Damien Woody and Herm Edwards react to the controversial ending in the Detroit Lions vs. Dallas Cowboys matchup.
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Head referee Brad Allen this is according to the pool report after the game said quote we had a situation where if you were going to have an ineligible number occupy an eligible position you have to report that to the referee on this particular play number 70 okay uh

Who had reported during the game a couple of times reported to me as eligible then he lined up at the tackle position so actually he didn’t have to report at all number 68 it was Decker who caught the pass I’m just reminding you outside of the quote here but the

Quote continues with number 68 who ended up going down and touching the pass did not report therefore he is an ineligible touching a pass that goes beyond the line which makes it a foul can’t think of a more perfect time than having Adam chapter here with us on Sports Center

Adam what are you hearing as far as a reaction around the league and how this ruling was handled well there’s a lot of reaction to this and I think it’s a commentary I think overall on the state of officiating in the game one Lions officials said it was the worst call he

Had ever seen in the game and of course you’re going to expect the Detroit Lions to F away had another NFL executive from another team say that the Lions basically tried to trick the officials by sending three linemen over there Dan Skipper was over by the official Penny

Su was over by the official and Taylor Decker was over by the official when just Taylor Decker should have been over there not all three but that doesn’t excuse the officials from missing the call that Dan Campbell says he laid out to them free game and then you heard

Every lion say that clearly 68 was reporting obviously the official didn’t hear it correctly and got it wrong the Lions tried to trick him up and wound up tricking up the official they tried to trick up the Cowboys tricked up the official instead and now we have a

Scenario that has the real possibility of totally rearranging the NFC playoff picture because if the Detroit Lions now who are basically locked into the three seed win in the opening round their second round game is probably going to be at an NFC East team as opposed to

Hosting the game not only that but next week the lions are probably locked into number three so they’re playing Minnesota which is still competing with other teams for a playoff spot the Lions May treat next week as a buy so one call has completely changed the way that the

NFC Playoff Picture could look yeah at this point in the season it’s it could be detrimental after what you just said Adam but if it’s determined that it’s officially an error from what we saw from the referees what’s the league process looking like going forward for

This officiating crew well it is not the first time that Brad Allen’s crew has made a high-profile error this season they are regarded as a good crew he’s a good official but there have been any number of Miss calls including this one at the end of the game where there was

No pass interference called when clearly there was and this was not called there are other instances throughout the course of the year that the Brad Allen crew did not make we could go through we’ve done this already on espn.com basically I can tell you this in the postseason it’s going to be mixed

Cru a large part of brag Allen’s crew is not going to be officiating in the postseason they’re going to get downgraded and the chances are that many of them are not going to be involved in the postseason because the league has a huge issue here where there’s a controversy over officiating no matter

Who’s right and who’s wrong it’s Sunday morning of week 17 and we’re talking about whether the officials got a call right that threatens to impact the entire playoff picture it’s ridiculous and there have been way way too many instances of this this year and there

Are a lot of teams that are pissed off yeah and evidently we are too having to talk about this week by week instead of talking about Jared cof and Dak Prescott’s performance let’s take it over Adam thank you you’re sticking around with us a little bit more Randy

Who are you with I’ve got Damen Woody I’ve got Herm Edward so a man who played the offensive line a man who’s coached professional football Damen I want to start with you your reaction to the end game sequence you see me Fanning right now right I’m still yeah I’m I’m still

Hot from that call last night and I feel for Dan Campbell in the Detroit Lin in situation but let me remind everyone out here I’m I’m I played 12 years in the National Football League I’ve been in a situation before where you have to report eligible it’s literally you don’t

Even have to say anything you’re literally swiping your jersey in front of the ref that is it you’re swiping your jersey in front of the ref to let the referee know that you are an eligible player okay you are eligible Dan Skipper number 70 he was ineligible

He was lined up at tackle pan Su was lined up next to him so he could not have been eligible on that play So if you look at the whole picture you look at the formation the only lineman that could have been eligible was Taylor Decker that’s it that’s a blown call by

About a referee I want to pick on something you just said non-verbal sometimes you can just go up and swipe your jersey it looks like Allen isn’t even looking at Decker in the overhead shot is it incumbent upon one person in that interaction to make eye contact to

Make sure that hey I’m not trying to tip off Dallas any more than I need to but I need to make sure you see me and I’m doing and I’m doing this I’m listen I don’t know what more Taylor Decker can do like you he literally walked up to

The referee swiped swiped his jersey and that’s all you have to do like he did his job the referee didn’t do his job all right from a coach’s perspective her what is it on the coach what’s your role in communicating this because we heard Dan Campbell say I hammer this to a te

Pregame and he he did he hammered the pregame the official generally come to your locker room and you always give him uh the officials warning of any kind of new formation a new play something that officials don’t want to be caught off guard for me I would draw up the

Formation and say this is the formation are we eligible how do we go by doing this we’re going to check in with you guys these are the numbers you let them know this before the game actually numbers of the player oh yeah you kind of give them they don’t want to get

Caught by formations or something tricky where they go oh we just C us we don’t want we don’t want to embarrass officials officials don’t want to be embarrassed but as Adam said very nicely over there a few minutes ago the officials are on the hot seat right now sometimes the official when you’re

Talking about officials yeah at the end of football games on Sundays that’s never good that’s not a good sign well and you got to understand that thing that the reason why chefy’s hot I’m hot Herman’s hot we’re talking about playoff seating that matters it’s a big deal

Between playing on the road and playing home games and like like Adam shf talked about the whole NFC playoff picture as far as seating could be shaken up because of one call and you want to have the players decide it and not the guy with the whistle in his Hand