Officiating?

What about the PI call that looked like offensive PI if anything. I don't remember who it was but they had Witten covered down the middle. Had great postion to the inside and were looking back for the ball ; Witten pushed off to get seperation but missed the catch.

Fuck all those officials with a a Santa Claus size sack of dicks.

 

I think that was called on Marshall

 

I have no doubt in my mind that if you take Smitty's "catch" and place it at the 5yd line and instead of fumbling out of bounds he fumbles out of the end zone,it would have been ruled a "catch& fumble".
The officiating was an embarrassment. I used to think that Carey was a good one.

 

I thought they blew the call on Smith's catch, but that one you could at least argue. The non-call on Carter was absolutely horrible. Overall, I thought this crew blew calls both ways, but it ended up that more of them broke in the Cowboys' favor.

For the record, this isn't Carey and his crew's first controversial outing. It was his bunch that called that ridiculous roughing penalty on Justin Smith last season (afterward, Marvin Lewis said he guessed they should have "cuddled him to the ground"). I think it was also Carey's crew that made that questionable call on MNF a while back that allowed the Colts a re-kick on a missed field goal (I'd have to look it up to be certain, though).

 

As a guy who rooted for the Redskins for a lot of years before the Panthers existed I can tell you that Dallas always gets a lot of questionable calls going in their favor. The league wants "america's team" to do well.

Think back a couple of years to the time they beat us because they called roughing the kicker on us but the field goal was clearly tipped before we hit the kicker. They always get all the breaks.

 

but the contact happened before both feet hit the ground. He only had one foot down when the Dallas player hit him.

If I understand, if both feet were down before contact, it was a catch. If contact happened before both feet were down, it's incomplete. Obviously, I can't see it now, but I'm pretty sure he only had one foot down when the contact occurred. That's the way I understood the call.

 

Shouldn't a rear end on the ground count the same as a foot? An elbow does.

 

Catch, two feet, one butt, contact, ball comes out = fumble

They must have seen an angle in the booth we didn't, because what I saw was a catch.

 

Still bitching!

I know it does no good to poor-mouth, but here's what one Fort Worth writer (Jen Engel) had to say about the refs Sunday morning:

Other items of interest that found their way into my trusty reporters notebook: If I am a Panther official, I am sending a copy of this game tape to the NFL with a Post-it stickied to it, saying "Are you kidding me, Rog?" An absolute botched pass interference non-call on Jacques Reeves as well as a non-catch call on Steve Smith were as embarrassing as any officiating I’ve seen in the NFL this season. ... And do you realize how much it pains me to agree with Bryant Gumbel about anything? ... This is not why Carolina lost, a basically nonexistent offense was.

 

if this ain't a catch you can kiss my ass