{"id":474631,"date":"2023-12-31T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T01:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474631"},"modified":"2023-12-31T21:07:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T01:07:04","slug":"referees-missed-tripping-call-before-late-detroit-penalty","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/referees-missed-tripping-call-before-late-detroit-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Referees missed tripping call before late Detroit penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A missed call in the crucial minutes of yesterday night\u2019s clash between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys led to an even higher-profile error in what has escalated to show that the league has a problem with the referees.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some, if not all, of Brad Allen&#8217;s referee crew from Saturday&#8217;s Lions-Cowboys game is expected to be downgraded and excluded from officiating playoff games, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSchefter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@AdamSchefter<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ax10zsClew\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ax10zsClew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1741498125745881091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The problem with the official Brad Allen and his crew- involving an overturned 2-point conversion by Detroit \u2013 may have been avoided if not for another mistake on Dallas\u2019s previous possession.<\/p>\n<p>Brad and his crew will be punished and will not be part of the playoffs after the mistakes that they made that cost the Lions the victory against the Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>The officiating team also drew criticism in Week 15 when they missed Cleveland\u2019s pass-rusher Za&#8217;Darius Smith&#8217;s hit on Chicago\u2019s QB Justin Fields. That definitely shows that the NFL has a problem with its referees, and they must focus on resolving it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A missed call in the crucial minutes of yesterday night\u2019s clash between the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys led to an even higher-profile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17324],"news_category":[],"gn_keywords":[22481,17873],"acf":{"announce":"The officials missed tripping call before Lions' controversial penalty.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474651,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474631\/revisions\/474651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474631"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474631"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}