OK. That is fair and I don't know if that's actually allowed, either. It may not be. I had not seen the actual video of what happened when I said that, so I had the wrong thing in my head.
I think this article nails it on the head:
https://larrybrownsports.com/football/lions-confusing-2-point-conversion-cowboys/626351
It’s not 100 percent clearly exactly who Allen was looking at, but he appeared to be focused on Skipper and pointed at Skipper, despite Decker approaching to report as eligible.
Allen may have thought Skipper was running at him to report as eligible and then just went to tell the Cowboys that No. 70 was eligible, even if Skipper never said a word.
The Lions’ mistake is that they sent three offensive linemen toward Allen — with the obvious intent to deceive Dallas’ defense. The problem is they confused the official, who reported the “wrong” player eligible.
In my opinion, this was an execution error by Detroit. If they didn’t want to confuse the official, they should have told Skipper to run straight to the huddle rather than run toward the official. They should have made it clear to the official who was reporting as eligible. They failed to do so, which is part of their responsibility.
Not to mention, going to excessive and risky lengths to try to deceive the defense on the trick play.
Refs are human. The deception worked too well.
The people who are pissed are bettors. Plain and simple
Of course, if you bet on Detroit for the spread ... you won. Or the Under, you won. Converting the 2pt wouldn't have changed that either.
It's just the people who bet on the Detroit ....
ML ... and probably as part of a 5-leg parlay, who are pissed off.
