ZigZagRam
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The problem is that every team makes mistakes during a game - winning ones included. They also make plays to overcome those mistakes - unless the officials take those plays away either with a flag or a swallowed whistle.
If the officials don't swallow their whistle on the long TD from Romo to Dez, that play never happens. Langford MADE a play and was applying pressure right up the middle. Without an obvious and egregious hold by the Dallas OL, Langford either gets a sack or at least interferes with the throw. And if the official throws the flag like he should have, Dallas is backed up 10 yards and has 7 points taken off the board.
Later, Sims got a clean sack of Romo that would have put them in 3rd and long deep in their own territory, giving us a chance of getting the ball back with more time. Again, someone from the Rams DID make a play - and then the officials decided to take the play away with one of the most ridiculous defensive holding calls in the history of football.
You have a roughing the passer call that extended a drive that resulted in an eventual score by the Cowboys where we would have otherwise gotten the ball back as well. The Rams defense MADE a play and stopped the Cowboys ... only to have the play overruled again, to the Cowboys advantage.
Did the Rams make mistakes in the game? Sure. But they also played good enough and made enough plays to overcome those mistakes and win a fairly and evenly officiated game. Unfortunately, that's not what they got. They shouldn't have to also be required to overcome excessively biased officiating too.
No team can be perfect on every single play of the game. The Cowboys certainly weren't either, with a fumble and a pick six. But I guess you'll give them credit for overcoming those mistakes, never mind the fact that they had a lot of help from the men in stripes.
One of the best posts I've seen here.
Very well said.