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Maybe it's just me and my Tivo wasn't quite recording live TV right, but wasn't Carolina on the 9 yard line when Moore got hit, and the penalty was half the distance to the goal, and when they lined up for the next play they were still on the 9 yard line???

Am I going crazy, did I read the tick marks wrong?

The officiating was absolutely horrible and I usually like Carey's calls.

I like Collinsworth's suggestions that game changing calls should be subject to review. There have been some horrible game changing calls this year and the review challenges should change.

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Reply from the Sportz Assassin:

Well, the half the distance penalty was marked off from the spot of where Moore was sacked ... not from the original line of scrimmage. Carolina has a 1st-and-goal at the 9 yd line. He was sacked at the 18 yd line. The penalty went half the distance ... half of 18 is 9 ... which put the ball at the 9 again.

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you know what, i'm sure every teams' fans think this but I really must say NFL referees are biased against the Panthers. They are biased against the team with the ugly blue jerseys that represent a market that nobody really cares about and I'd bet that aside from maybe the Ravens, the Panthers are the team with the least out-of-market fans and they are a team that people outside the Carolinas just don't care for and have, at the very least, a mild distaste for.

In all my years watching football I've never seen a team be at the wrong end of so many questionable calls and non-calls as the Panthers. And only once do I ever remember questionable calls and non-calls swinging a game in favor of the Panthers (that being the first Falcons game this year, where my boy Steve could have just as easily been flagged as DeAngelo Hall in some cases in my honest opinion). The Panthers should not bite their tongues despite what fines the league may impose, they need to shout that the refs are biased and make a big stink about it.

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Maybe I made the mistake of watching the entire game and not just when Carolina had the ball, maybe. Because I saw an awful lot of no calls that should have gone against Carolina. Like hitting Terrell Owens in the First Quarter on what would have been a first down before the ball even got to him. Or maybe we could go with the first drive where it was obvious that Jason Witten was being held and caused him to drop a pass he should have caught. Result: 4th down.

The simple truth is Steve Smith should have held on to the ball, had he held onto the ball there wouldn't be any talk about a bad call. The ruling was their was contact and Steve Smith was going down before his feet made contact with the ground. Terrence Newman did have contact with Steve Smith as he was catching the ball, the ruling doesn't mean both feet can't land on the ground. I think this rule needs to be clarified though, it could have gone either way, but the bottom line is he should have held onto the ball.

Either way the calls may have changed the outcome of the game, but be fair in your analysis as it wasn't just a whole lot of no calls that hurt the Panthers, there were quite a few (three off the top of my head, and a phantom call on Proctor) that hurt the Cowboys as well.

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They have got to do something about these subjective zebra calls. This is getting ridiculous.

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I agree 100% with this article and I appreciate the person who took the time to write it. Not only were the headlines after the game all about the Cowboys "winning" and TO getting hurt. The commentary, interviews and press before the game was all about the Cowboys as well. The favoritism ruins the sport.

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Typical Dallas crap, always getting the calls, oh well if the Panthers would have played better it wouldnt have mattered.

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