Via ESPN:
According to the NFL, the league office was authorized to step in under Rule 15, Section 3, Article 9 of its rulebook. It states: “The replay official and designated members of the officiating department may consult with on-field officials, or conduct a replay review, of game administration issues, including: (a) penalty enforcement; (b) the proper down; (c) spot of a foul; and (d) the game clock.”
“It says that we can get involved, replay can, as far as game-administration issues: downs, enforcements, things like that,” NFL senior vice president of officiating Al Riveron said. “So, by rule, we can get involved. This is a game-administration issue, not a judgment call, for example. And we have definite audio that refers to deferring.”
“Definitely a weird start,” Prescott said after his team won in a rout, 44-21. “We wanted to set adversity there instead of on the field, so we could play from behind immediately. Just bad use of words by me. We listened to the audio. We got it figured out. Just wasn’t the cleanest coin flip I’ve been a part of.”
Cowboys better teach Dak how to call the coin flip.
They need every win they can get.
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