HOWEVER WE DO NOT HAVE A CLEAR RECOVERY BY THE RECEIVING TEAM...

[DEERSPINE GUY]

FUCK YOU JUST FUCK YOU.
WILL HAUNT ME TILL NEXT COWFAGS GAME.

SO FUCKING PISSED.

[Susquehanna Birder]

It'll be that much more painful when the league sends Doug an apology letter for that fuck-up.

[McCarthy12]

And you know they will. They HAVE to admit that they messed that up.

It was such a devastating call. It's hard to watch something like that and have any confidence in the product. The integrity of a billion dollar industry is in the hands of a group of folks who can't seem to do their job correctly. If I were the NFL, I'd be concerned about that.

Interesting point made by Danny Kanell on sports radio just now. Remember, they actually fired that official earlier in the year. That was a first. Kanell thinks that that was a warning shot to the officials that they are under a new level of scrutiny. Now they are being held to the same standard as the players. And it appears they can't handle the pressure.

[RSE]

I don’t believe the refs would have had the balls to make the same ruling at Lincoln Financial Field.

[phillyeagles36]

FUCK YOU JUST FUCK YOU.
WILL HAUNT ME TILL NEXT COWFAGS GAME.

SO FUCKING PISSED.

No clear recovery because 6 eagles players landed on the ball...

[headknocker]

FUCK YOU JUST FUCK YOU.
WILL HAUNT ME TILL NEXT COWFAGS GAME.

SO FUCKING PISSED.

It was a first-ballot HOF officiating phuck-up...probably the most ridiculous call I've ever seen. I still can't believe it. Without a single Cowboy in that damn pile there's no way for them to justify their BS decision.

[JuTMSY4]

well, let's be clear

No clear recovery because 6 eagles players landed on the ball...

Doug challenged the play as fumble, they ruled it was a fumble, but there was no clear recovery. Doug shouldn't have lost a challenge (and TO) because it was a fumble and they ruled it a fumble.

[McCarthy12]

Nope.

[Riccardo]

I hope the local papers

FUCK YOU JUST FUCK YOU.
WILL HAUNT ME TILL NEXT COWFAGS GAME.

SO FUCKING PISSED.

Had this as the headline

[Loki]

Unfortunately, it's not up to the refs.

According to Comcast Sports Net's referee expertise talking head, the New York office has final say on that decision. During the review, the on field referees can offer their opinions, but in the end the folk in New York make the decision. Supposedly, it's new this year? Ugh.

[art vandelay]

Doug challenged the play as fumble, they ruled it was a fumble, but there was no clear recovery. Doug shouldn't have lost a challenge (and TO) because it was a fumble and they ruled it a fumble.

While the call was horrendous, a coach can only challenge a fumble as it pertains to a change in possession.

[JuTMSY4]

Hmm

While the call was horrendous, a coach can only challenge a fumble as it pertains to a change in possession.

The rules provide for a coach to challenge a change in possession, but I cannot find what is considered "success" for those purposes. I don't think you're wrong, but determining that because there wasn't enough evidence that an Eagles player recovered defies logic in the fact of the fact that it was a fumble. The ball had to go somewhere and you can't determine it's out for anyone to get and then determine that there isn't enough evidence to determine that you can locate a single individual who did recover it.

Or as Terry McAuley floats - simple one team without another team having a chance to get it.

Still insane.