The Dallas Cowboys exceeded everyone's expectations this season by finishing the year with a 12-4 record and winning the NFC East. The team also notched just its second playoff win in nearly two decades when they defeated the Detroit Lions during the Wild Card round of the NFL playoffs.
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The Cowboys benefitted in that game against Detroit from a questionable-at-best officiating decision when the referee picked up a pass interference flag that would have extended a Detroit drive. They came up on the short end of an officiating decision the following week.
Everyone now knows that the Cowboys were dispatched during the Divisional Round of the playoffs by the Green Bay Packers. The play at the center of the game was a non-catch by Dez Bryant that every person in the known universe agrees was a catch. The play was initially ruled a catch on the field, but it was overturned after a review. Paradoxically, everyone also agrees that the ruling was correct.
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Bryant was the victim of "The Calvin Johnson Rule," which tries to set definite standards for what constitutes a catch, although in practice it just leads to clear catches being overturned. The backlash against the rule has been loud and consistent, but having the rule ruin an otherwise electric playoff game seems to have given the league the impetus to review the language concerning the statute.
Dean Blandino said Calvin Johnson Rule, in effect w/ Dez Bryant, will be reviewed this winter. Changes could be recommended to comp comm.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 29, 2015
Hopefully, for the good of every NFL fan, the rule will be stricken from the books - or at least dramatically altered - so that no more games will be swung by a clear catch getting overturned on a technicality.
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