re: If you think (or know) SEC officials are bad/corrupt the Cowboys Lions game is 4 u

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He was still covered by another receiver and I don’t think you can be declared as an eligible receiver regardless in that case.

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He was not. I thought the same thing at first glance, but it was due to the angle. It was close, but t

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Great execution on the call but that would have been why Dallas didn’t cover the guy because they knew he was not an eligible receiver.


[quote]Great execution on the call but that would have been why Dallas didn’t cover the guy because they knew he was not an eligible receiver.

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Regardless of how the frick up happened, this could indeed be the case. Two lineman were near the ref pre-snap and one of them reports as eligible (the ref claims it was #70). In the replay, the ref steps up to the LOS before the snap and tells them #70 was reporting as eligible.