MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL Detroit Lions 🦁 @ Dallas Cowboys 🤠 on a Saturday Night edition of MNF.

[ELTEXAN]

Looks like 68 walked up to the ref beforehand

 

[ELTEXAN]

Also, just as an aside, why did 68 linger by the DBs on that penalized play instead of just skooching back and giving him a clear target?

 

[ralphiewvu]

 

[ELTEXAN]

Who here knows the EXACT protocol on reporting as eligible?
68 reports to ref, then what? Does the ref stand over him and report out loud and point out 68 to the defense that 68 is eligible?

 

[ELTEXAN]

Refs weren’t going to let you lose on Jimmy night.

That doesn’t look very conclusive. Why do refs and players suck?

 

[Guy Incognito]

Refs weren’t going to let you lose on Jimmy night.

The guy who reported lined up at TE on the right side. The guy who caught the pass was lined up at LT, which is an ineligible position.

 

[williewilliejuan]

The Lions got jobbed there.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Who here knows the EXACT protocol on reporting as eligible?
68 reports to ref, then what? Does the ref stand over him and report out loud to the defense that 68 is eligible?

The referee usually turns on his mic and says "#70 reported eligible".

#68 could have reported eligible, but he was still lined up at the LT position, which, by rule, is ineligible to catch a pass.

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

He was really in the running??

Lmao

Haven't heard that but what a messed up year for mvp voting. No qb deserves it but they will probably take the top five spots.

 

[Guy Incognito]

The Lions got jobbed there.

You misspelled "Lioned". That was the most on-brand way for the Lions to remind the world that they're still the Lions.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Dan Campbell just said the refs told him two players cant both report.

 

[Hitman Hart]

You misspelled "Lioned". That was the most on-brand way for the Lions to remind the world that they're still the Lions.

 

[ELTEXAN]

68 and 70 are trying to report. At the same time (who’s IS legal to do at the same rime, it turned out). Ref is looking at 70. And 58 is literally also there for no reason standing in the way. All while the ref is moving toward the line of scrimmage.

Weakness all around.

 

[Guy Incognito]

Dan Campbell just said the refs told him two players cant both report.

Lol. Campbell still doesn't get that 68 was lined up at LT. It doesn't matter if he reported eligible or not, he'd still have to actually line up in an eligible position. There has to be two players between him and the center for him to be an eligible receiver.

 

[SU Nittany Tide]

68 and 70 are trying to report. At the same time. Ref is looking at 70. And 58 is literally also there for no reason standing in the way. All while the ref is moving toward the line of scrimmage.

Weakness all around.

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Not sure why 58 was there, but why in the hell was the ref in such a hurry on a stopped clock? He literally cost the lions the game.

 

[Guy Incognito]

68 and 70 are trying to report. At the same time. And 58 is literally also there for no reason standing in the way. All while the ref is moving toward the line of scrimmage.

Weakness all around.

End of the day, the regular LT tries to report as eligible, then they line him up at LT and have him run a pass pattern. He is an ineligible receiver when he lines up at LT, it doesn't matter what he told the refs. They needed another lineman to get between 68 and the center.

 

[ELTEXAN]

Not sure why 58 was there, but why in the hell was the ref in such a hurry on a stopped clock? He literally cost the lions the game.

He doesn’t have all the time in the world. He needs to get back to the line, clearly report to the defensive captain, all before the play starts.

Also, the ref is clearly looking at 70 who is gesturing to him clearly as he literally runs up.
And only after that 68 tries to gets the ref attention with a subtle brush of his own chest…. While 58 fat fuck is standing in the way. Weak.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

Not sure why 58 was there, but why in the hell was the ref in such a hurry on a stopped clock? He literally cost the lions the game.

there would have been a penalty regardless, so it didnt cost the Lions, but does make the refs look like the 3 stooges.

 

[fordman84]

Who here knows the EXACT protocol on reporting as eligible?
68 reports to ref, then what? Does the ref stand over him and report out loud and point out 68 to the defense that 68 is eligible?

Reporting doesn't even matter. He was covered by a WR on the line, so even if he were reported eligible he was covered and that made him ineligible.

 

[fordman84]

Not sure why 58 was there, but why in the hell was the ref in such a hurry on a stopped clock? He literally cost the lions the game.

No, the Lions cost the game by not reporting AND lining up wrong.