Comments on: Bengals furious that Reggie Nelson was flagged for hit on Dez Bryant

By: CowboyErik

CowboyErik — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:10:14 +0000

Worry about the Eagles; they will hit you harder!

By: dcwbysfn22

dcwbysfn22 — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:54:00 +0000

Quit whining Bengals fans. The Cowboys are one of the most penalized teams in the league. That ONE call in the 3rd quarter did not cost you the game. YOU GOT BEAT by a Cowboys team who is missing 6 starters on defense and has an offensive line that has so many injuries they have a guard playing center!! You couldn’t stop them in crunch time. Get over it!!! You lost.

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:52:18 +0000

The Jones call was wrong because Dalton was out of the pocket.

By: easyeintennessee

easyeintennessee — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:28:15 +0000

Forget this play… the one that changed the game was the Marvin Jones TD that was called back because of being an ineligible reciever. The Dallas player clearly pushes him out of the back of the endzone, he comes back in, catches the TD, and the refs blow the call. Score is 23-10 if they get the call right at that time.

By: jody46

jody46 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 02:12:09 +0000

that was a great hit! classic and how could they throw a flag on it. I am glad that they didn’t score because of the rotten call.

By: pens5829

pens5829 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:43:18 +0000

Not a fan of either team, but this call was complete and utter BS! Textbook hit!

The NFL has become a joke! From the front office to the clowns in stripes. They’ve getting worse and worse each year and need to be disciplined somehow, some way, and need to be held accountable for their actions. Otherwise all you’ve got is the WWF. They might as well hire Vince McMahon.

By: blackbug99

blackbug99 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:32:47 +0000

The Head of Officiating should acknowledge it was a non-foul and a textbook play. The replacement officials were vilified for their calls, and time lost to replays etc. The “Official” Officials are seemingly worse….they botch calls and use the replay for verification and still don’t get it right. They are the Pro’s, right?

By: pemory

pemory — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:41:49 +0000

A real shame to see this textbook defensive play get flagged. The DB played it absolutely perfectly.

By: manningbowl88

manningbowl88 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:16:02 +0000

as the should be furious.. that was a TERRIBLE call.. thats why everyone says bring out the skirts bec of BS calls like this..

plus the possibility of no kickoffs no more .RIP to the nfl in 5-10 years.

By: BringBackTheFlex

BringBackTheFlex — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:05:01 +0000

runfaster21 says:
“I’ve never seen so many easy drops in a game.”

Obviously you don’t watch a lot of Cowboys games.

By: bengalsucker

bengalsucker — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:01:26 +0000

Hey so what happened to an unsportsmanlike call on Bryant for dancing over the flag and pointing? That should be a flag if we are trying to pick apart the rule book.

By: patsfiend

patsfiend — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:42:50 +0000

They ought to be mad. That was potentially a game-swinging, drive-saving call, and the flag came in late. That was a legit hit. Shoulder to shoulder, and it wasn’t late, and it wasn’t malicious. Bryant is a crybaby (which all receivers and QB’s will be… since they know there is a chance to get a big flag out of it) and the ref should have kept the flag in his pocket.

I hate what they are doing to football. Might as well as get rid of tackling altogether and use flags.

(from an impartial Pats fan who happened to be watching that game)

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:22:47 +0000

And Ernie Sims hit Jones in the head, nearly beheaded him. Before any Cowboy fan even tries to bring that up…

By: Mr. Wright 212

Mr. Wright 212 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:21:53 +0000

Refs cheated for Dallas a few times yesterday. Move on, nothing to see here.

By: daytonsfinest

daytonsfinest — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:14:28 +0000

That was a terrible game.

By: mogogo1

mogogo1 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:08:29 +0000

Get used to calls like this because they’re not going away. “Hard hit” and “illegal hit” are now one and the same. It’s going to wreck the game, but the NFL is more scared of the concussion lawsuits than anything else.

It wasn’t as bad as the call on the hit to Bryant, but GB got flagged for a blow to the head on Calvin Johnson last night for a normal tackle where Johnson dipped his head into the tackler.

Just wait until playoff games or the Super Bowl end up getting decided by a call like that, because it will happen.

By: poshous4life

poshous4life — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:58:21 +0000

Lots of bad calls every game day! Let it go people they lost fare and square!

By: huhsj

huhsj — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:48:08 +0000

Lets see if the NFL still fines him. In the past they still have fined people for what seemed to be clean hits.

By: whodeygreg

whodeygreg — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:48:07 +0000

I don’t think anybody’s saying it cost the Bengals the game but it does start to affect a players game when they get flagged for a legal hit. And although the Cowboys got no points out of that series, the Bengals did have to burn a timeout right after that play more so to settle down the team after the bad call. Hey Marvins pretty bad with managing timeouts but he doesn’t need any help from the officials.

Whine, complain, no. Just stating facts as Cowboys fans whine about the illegal hit to the “helmet” and phantom holding calls that really could get called on every play. Allow them to play and I’m in total agreement that with so many close calls like this, these type of plays need to be reviewable or can be challenged.

By: DCBlueStar

DCBlueStar — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:13:02 +0000

Oh? You mean the same way Ernie Sims was flagged? Should the Cowboys be furious the refs whistled Dwayne Harris down when he was clearly up and running towards the endzone on a punt return? Suck it up. Quit whining.

By: ronaldjones

ronaldjones — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:09:29 +0000

That was a bad call, but Reggie Nelson is still a terrible football player and a gigantic bust.

By: judsonjr

judsonjr — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:06:06 +0000

The Cowboys ended up punting that drive, so the damage was minimal. As for the penalty, it’s clear that the refs are often fooled by the “whiplash” on some of the clean hits. If they see the head fly back and there is a crack of the shoulder pads they’ll throw the flag.

By: dannymac17

dannymac17 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:01:47 +0000

that was one of the worst calls ive seen this year when it comes to protecting receivers.

that was a textbook pass break up put in the exact place goodell wants to see. in the chest, not the head or legs.

absolutely awful call.

By: tukai9248

tukai9248 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:01:23 +0000

As an Eagles fan, I wish any of our safeties could make a clean textbook hit like that. Hell I would be glad if our safeties could hit anything period.

That was a great clean hit.

By: bengaltillidie

bengaltillidie — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:49:12 +0000

I was at the game and yes the call was a bad one. Was it the difference in the game probably not. The only thing missing from this game was Marvin making a boneheaded challenge. Sure we had dropped passes and dropped ints but you can’t mismanage a game to where you lose all of your timeouts starting the fourth quarter in a nine point game. Also, you don’t have Green-Ellis standing on the sideline when he has been gashing the Cowboys D all day long. Mismanagement of the game by the Bengals coaching staff was, to me, the key reason for the loss.

By: thedon52

thedon52 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:44:28 +0000

The Cowboys punted three plays later. Didn’t have any bearing on the outcome.

Were they as furious with the garbage call that went in their favor which GAVE them 3 points b/c it put them into FG range when they should’ve punted?

Were they furious when the whistles eventually blew and Dwayne Harris missed out on a touchdown by saying he was ‘down’ was he was nowhere near down?

Or were they furious when Lissemore got tackled in the middle of the field by the center only to give Rob Ryan a 15 yard penalty for pointing out how terrible they were?

They should only be furious with themselves for all of their missed opportunties. That’s why they’re the Bengals

By: mrpowers88

mrpowers88 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:36:37 +0000

The refs called a “hit on a defenseless receiver.” Now, the timing is still up for debate, but it was a clean hit- just the timing of the hit allowed for the the “defenseless” card to be played. Do I like it? No, but there are times when the calls are missed and other times, like this, where the call is incorrect.

The Bengals got a chance to make up for it, which they did by forcing the Cowboys to punt after the next 3 plays. Not every team gets a chance to do that. The numerous drops down the stretch, coupled with the fact that they had no time-outs at the end, is the reason they lost.

By: ialwayswantedtobeabanker

ialwayswantedtobeabanker — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:25:54 +0000

Being a Steeler fan, I’m part of the contingent that wanted Cincy to lose that game — but to be fair, the Bengals did get hosed on that call.

It was a good, strong, solid and legal hit — just like the one Ngata got flagged for in the game against the Redskins. They’re conflating a high impact hit – with illegal hit. A player can hit someone hard – and – still be legal.

By: bluebongzilla

bluebongzilla — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:25:32 +0000

You guys are being kinda harsh on a guy that has to make a call on a split-second in time without the benefit of the hindsight known as instant replay. The rule says you can’t hit a defenseless guy in the head or neck area with helmet, forearm or shoulder and I don’t think they’re gonna let you get away with it if you’re close enough to the head and neck area to have the guy’s head snap into your shoulder. With slo-mo hindsight I probably wouldn’t make that call. At game speed I probably would.

By: davekva72

davekva72 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:24:21 +0000

The Bengals should be furious that they dropped about a dozen balls in that game.

The hit was clean, and should not have been called, but there were other plays that should have been called and were not. Bad officiating always seems to balance itself out. For example, on the play before that bad call, Romo was hit late, and thrown to the ground. Fox replayed it, the announcers were wondering why there was no flag. That bad non-call was balanced out by the bad call on the hit on Dez.

Not saying it’s right, but that’s how it is. Only weak teams and weak players blame a loss on the officiating.