Lions: The NFL’s view on player Reporting Procedures after Trick vs Cowboys Backfired.

Although Week 17 featured a lot of exciting action, Taylor Decker’s decision to not declare himself as an eligible receiver led to the

overturning of the Detroit Lions’ successful two-point conversion attempt late in their game against the Dallas Cowboys.

This was by far the most contentious moment of the entire season. Although the major call has garnered a lot of attention, the

NFL doesn’t seem to be that concerned.

The shortened version of the situation is that the Lions tried to fake the Cowboys out by having Decker actually report as eligible,

and another one of their offensive lineman in Dan Skipper fake reporting as eligible. The problem was that the referees were

fooled by the play as well, and as a result, the NFL doesn’t seem to believe that changes to the player reporting process will be necessary over the upcoming offseason.

All eyes were on the NFL to see how they would respond to this major missed call, so it’s somewhat interesting to see that their

first reaction was to address the player reporting process. This isn’t the first time a team has had issues with this process, as the

New England Patriots used a trick of their own to confuse the Baltimore Ravens back in 2014 that resulted in owners

immediately banning teams from ever being able to do it again.

However, it doesn’t appear that the league is worried that a team has discovered a weakness that needs to be addressed this

time. Instead, they think that the Lions’ overly sentimental attempt to win a game backfired on them.

The league doesn’t seem to have much sympathy for Detroit, which is bad because when you play with fire, sometimes you get

burned. Still, the referees should have called the play better.

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