The NFL wouldn’t take all the blame for the roughing the punter name within the Cowboys’ 24-20 comeback victory over the rival Eagles on Sunday.
With 4:45 remaining within the first quarter, Cowboys vast receiver Ryan Flournoy was flagged for roughing the kicker on a punt try — which resulted in a 15-yard penalty on Dallas and led to an Eagles rating.
A replay by Fox later confirmed Flournoy’s proper hand making contact with the soccer earlier than connecting with Eagles punter Braden Mann. The Cowboys didn’t problem the decision.
Mark Butterworth, the NFL vp of prompt replay, acknowledged the error on the league’s half — however defined that Fox’s replay was proven “too late” for officers to overview it.
“When there’s a flag thrown for roughing the punter, we clear the play to ensure that the ball wasn’t tipped,” Butterworth mentioned in a pool report after the sport. “We are able to use replay help to choose up the flag when now we have clear and apparent video proof that the participant that dedicated the foul touched the ball prior to creating contact with the punter.
“Additionally, extra importantly, the protection can all the time problem that the ball was tipped previous to contact. Now, what occurred was, I feel a play or two later, TV confirmed an enhanced shot, which they’ll do. We don’t have entry to that enhanced shot till they present it. By then, it was too late. If we might have had that shot beforehand, we might have been capable of help previous to the ball being snapped.”
Butterworth added that if Dallas had challenged the decision, officers “in all probability would have gotten a complicated shot from broadcast that may have certainly confirmed that the ball was tipped.”
He additionally emphasised that there wouldn’t have been a roughing the punter name if Fox had proven the replay sooner.
“For us to replay help, we would want clear and apparent video proof, which we didn’t have till, once more, the printed accomplice despatched an enhanced view,” Butterworth mentioned. “I feel it was a play or two later. Their enhanced shot confirmed that the ball was tipped previous to contact to the punter by the fouling participant.”
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Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer mentioned Flournoy was “adamant” about tipping the ball, and that Dallas “ought to have challenged it.”
The Cowboys erased a 21-0 deficit in dramatic vogue Sunday to down the reigning Tremendous Bowl champion Eagles.
Dallas (5-5-1) has a brief week as they host the Chiefs (6-5) in Thursday’s Thanksgiving conflict.
The Eagles (8-3) play the Bears (8-3) in Philadelphia on Sunday.
