Week 13 Game Day Chatter | Saints @ Cowboys | 11-29-2018
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Great. Wait until PETA gets a whiff of this.
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Don't you mean, "wait until PETA gets a wolf of this"?
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Randy Gregory wasn’t lined up in the neutral zone
Posted by Mike Florio on November 30, 2018, 12:27 PM EST
One of the more bizarre officiating errors in a night marked with several of them came when the folks in black and white wiped out a Drew Brees fumble, recovered by the Cowboys.
Referee Walt Anderson announced that Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory had lined up in the neutral zone. But one small problem existed with this conclusion: Gregory wasn’t lined up in the neutral zone.
The neutral zone is, per the official rulebook, the “space between the forward and backward points of the ball (planes) and extends to the sidelines.” Look at the photo of the pre-snap alignment.
Gregory’s hand simply doesn’t line up with or beyond the forward point of the ball.
“This is too technical for a foul to be called,” former NFL referee and current Sunday Night Football rules analyst Terry McAulay told PFT via text message. “Moreover, the [left tackle] appears to be lined up in the backfield, so it would be better to have simply warned both players in this situation.”
Even a warning arguably would have been excessive. Gregory simply wasn’t in the neutral zone, and the official that concluded otherwise flat out blew it.
Posted by Mike Florio on November 30, 2018, 12:27 PM EST
One of the more bizarre officiating errors in a night marked with several of them came when the folks in black and white wiped out a Drew Brees fumble, recovered by the Cowboys.
Referee Walt Anderson announced that Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory had lined up in the neutral zone. But one small problem existed with this conclusion: Gregory wasn’t lined up in the neutral zone.
The neutral zone is, per the official rulebook, the “space between the forward and backward points of the ball (planes) and extends to the sidelines.” Look at the photo of the pre-snap alignment.
Gregory’s hand simply doesn’t line up with or beyond the forward point of the ball.
“This is too technical for a foul to be called,” former NFL referee and current Sunday Night Football rules analyst Terry McAulay told PFT via text message. “Moreover, the [left tackle] appears to be lined up in the backfield, so it would be better to have simply warned both players in this situation.”
Even a warning arguably would have been excessive. Gregory simply wasn’t in the neutral zone, and the official that concluded otherwise flat out blew it.
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Such a great play for them to call back for absolutely no reason. Just stupid. He literally just isn't offsides.
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This is so impressive on so many levels. Even the screen pass itself was sort of cutoff so Dak had to make a crazy lob over the defender and Zeke had to like one hand the thing. Just impressive all around.
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please don't "dur" me
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I only blame Gregory for the roughing call. I mean, his hand barely grazed Bress' face-mask for the other personal foul. Brees wasn't smashed like Dak was later in the game.
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He was also being held badly on that play. The LT was totally confused and just went straight to holding.
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Looney with the devastation.
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Really a shame we didn't get any of the fumbles Brees had. One was called back for made up bullshit and the other here just bounced the right way for them. We did an awesome job of creating opportunities in this game. Unfortunately all the fumbles seemed to go the Saints way.