Replacement Officials - Dallas vs NYG

[MD Longhorn]

I didn't see too many horrific errors, although I agree they likely missed the holding of Victor Cruz in the end zone - but I've seen that missed by NFL officials as well.

My main beefs in game one of this debacle were mechanical. Umpire moved more than I'm used to seeing on plays where he began behind the LOS. Sticks were slow a few times. The major gaffe wasn't noticed by the peanut gallery. they blew a play dead just before it started for IP on the Cowboy Defense. A) you don't kill this play in the NFL, B) the defense doesn't have the huddle requirement that the offense does (so this wasn't a breaking the huddle with 12 issue), C) the player got off the field before the whistle was even blown, so why did they blow the whistle at all? Both coaches were irritated, but moved on. Flag was waived off, but to an official - this looked very bad to me.

Only other thing I didn't like was that other than the first 5 minutes it was a rather flag-free game ... until the 4th quarter when suddenly every play had a flag - things obviously got tighter for no apparent reason. The hold in the 4thQ on Witten was bad.