The NFL didn’t wait long to release the pool report for the Detroit Lions-Dallas Cowboys Saturday night game that ended in controversy.
Trailing by seven with 23 seconds remaining, Jared Goff found Amon-Ra St. Brown for six to seemingly send the game into overtime. However, Dan Campbell decided to go for a two-point conversion and the win.
Goff found Taylor Decker in the end zone to put Detroit up by one, but the officials flagged the latter as an ineligible man downfield. Detroit still went for the two again, but Goff’s last go-ahead attempt to James Mitchell fell incomplete.
Speaking to Calvin Watkins of The Dallas Morning News after the game, head referee Brad Allen explained the controversial penalty call in the pool report. Allen claims that No. 70 (Dan Skipper) reported as eligible, but Decker didn’t.
Video footage showed Decker speaking to the referees before the two-point try, seemingly to declare eligible.
In a follow-up question asked by Watkins, Allen stated that Decker was asking him where No. 70 reports. Allen explained that he then went over to inform the defensive team that No. 70 (Skipper) was the one who reported as eligible.
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The Lions (11-5) will finish no lower than the third seed in the NFC, but Saturday’s loss greatly derailed their chances of finishing as the No. 1 seed.
