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Speaking of Network Cream Dreams joining us
now on the Freak Hotline. It's NFL

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on Fox Rules Analyst and other.
I mean, he's done so much you

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can't just put a blanket statement on
this guy. This guy has got many

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titles, but NFL on Fox Rules
Analyst Dean Blandino, Hello Dean, how

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are you? Hey? Guys,
And that's the best introduction I've ever had

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at Network Cream Dream That's amazing.
That's how you got hired, right.

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I think they were like, hey, we know, like we got Pereira

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and he's he's killing and also hope
he gets well soon. But let's let's

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really raise the sex appeal here.
Yeah, exactly, exactly, And that

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was a great I watched the end
of the game, KP, and your

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description was more exciting than the actual
end of the game. Oh, thank

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you. Well that's the power of
radio. But and for you, it

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was ten o'clock, not a midnight
for us who have to wake up at

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four am. Oh I never would
have stayed out if I was on Central

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Time. No way, I'm asleep. Yeah, that's kind of a bad

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start time east Coat. This would
have been one am finish. Well,

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thanks for getting up it's tough for
us to get West Coast guests on the

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show because you know, our show
ends in forty five minutes where it's eight

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am where you are. So thank
you for getting up and and responding to

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me. This happens Saturday night.
Obviously, dive in. We tried to

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lay it out as basic as possible
a couple hours ago. You did the

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refs did did almost don't be mean
to Brad Allen, But did the ref

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just get confused and mess up?
Like? What is your I guess description

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of what happened? I think there's
a couple of things. But before the

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game, you know, the officials
will go to each locker room, two

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officials. Ninety minutes before the game, we'll go to each locker room,

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see the head coach, look if
they have any questions. Do you have

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any trick plays, any gadgets that
we need to know about? And so,

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you know, the Lions told Brett
the two officials that we're going to

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have seventy committed report from time to
time we might have a tackle eligible play,

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just so the officials are aware of
what's happening. And I think with

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that situation, I think there was
a couple of things. Sixty eight is

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on the end of the line.
He's the one obviously that catches the past.

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He has to report. The lines
aren't going to run that play without

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sixty eight reporting. It's the whole
play depends on that. But I think

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what they did is they kind of
got a little bit cute where they had

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not just not just Decker, but
Tonay Sewell and then Skipper come on to

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the field and then go to the
referee. So there were two offensive linemen

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in front of Brett Allen and then
seventies coming onto the field and almost like

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kind of the guys who was really
reporting, And I think Brad Allen just

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assumed that it was seventy because he
had done it during the game earlier,

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and so Brad went too fast assume
that that seventy was reporting. The Lions

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kind of try to disguise it,
and it just created this confusion, and

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Brett Allen announced seventy, told the
defense seventy was eligible, and then obviously

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when once sixty eight catches a pass
and to the officials he hasn't reported,

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that becomes a foul, and now
where you know, And that's basically what

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happened. So basically, in the
Lions' efforts to deceive the Dallas defense,

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they ended up deceiving the officiating crew. And I think Dan Campbell and his

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press conference yesterday admitted as much.
Yeah, and with no timeouts left,

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they don't they can't, you know, do anything to reset that. And

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I believe the eligibility number had been
announced over the PA system, So at

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that point it's kind of like,
well, what are you going to do?

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You know, I think that's exactly
right now. I'm not saying that

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there isn't There isn't some responsibility on
the official side, right, don't you

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can't go too fast. Look,
it's a two point try. It's basically

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for the game. The clock isn't
running. Don't assume anything. Just make

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sure. Okay, who's eligible?
Sixty eight are you reporting? It's seventy

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reporting? And I think just kind
of went into more of like an auto

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auto drive mode. Seventy had reported
earlier. Okay, here he comes,

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and the Lions kind of, you
know, I get it. They you

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know, they they're trying to trick
play. That's the whole point. They

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want to trick the defense, but
unfortunately they trick the referee. Okay,

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so does it? Can you walk
me through the operation of By the way,

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this is NFL on Fox Rules analyst
Dean Blandino joining us. Now,

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nice reset, Katie. Yeah,
you know, just trying to hit all

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the benchmarks, you know, the
can you walk me through the operation of

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this? So? Or maybe I
have a foggy memory here? Is it

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common when a player reports that you
might hear the referee on the crowd mic,

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you know, or on his microphone
say, and if he says that

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number seventy had reported that, maybe
everyone would have known, and maybe the

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Lions could have been like, no, that's not what happened. Or is

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that just heat of the moment two
point conversion for a win? Crowd noise

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like what happens there? No,
it is. So the the protocol is

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the player. The first time the
player comes in and he's gonna he's gonna

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play a position that he's not eligible
to play. So sixty eight comes into

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the game says I'm going to play. I'm gonna be eligible. The referee

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will make that announcement, and and
and and bred Allen did there there's it

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didn't. I don't think it showed
up on the broadcast, But I have

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seen some videos on social media where
you could hear it. Yep, the

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Spanish broadcast at it. Yeah,
and a lot of times in the stadium

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it's hard to hear obviously, that's
you know, he got Crawden rage,

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you got all these things. But
he did announce it, and that is

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the proper protocol. And then at
that point, you know, if the

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Lions recognize that but they're out of
time out, certainly they could they could

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say, hey, wait a minute, no it's not. But now you've

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kind of now so now it's going
to create a delay. You might end

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up getting a delay of game.
There's a lot of factors. Once once

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kind of the the you know,
the seventy had had been announced, it

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was tough to kind of go back. Okay, so and the Lions probably

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couldn't have even I mean, if
it was announced whatever, the lines are

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probably just trying to call the play
and no one is even thinking, hey

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they just announced that. The wrong
guy reported. I mean, is because

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I don't know, maybe maybe it's
as loud as it was. Maybe that's

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fine, and that's a tough spot. I guess the ref is in,

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but man, you just want you
know, from the referee perspective, the

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referee thought, seventy, we're going
normal, normal mechanics. Seventy is the

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eligible player with the ineligible number.
And you know, maybe the lines didn't

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maybe stick in here the announcement,
or they just kind of, like you

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said, they're getting ready to run
the play and it just got by them.

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And to make it even more wacky, if seventy had been the guy

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that reported as an eligible receiver,
he was lined up illegally to be an

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eligible receiver. Correct, exactly right. There's if if seventy reports, there's

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there's there's three fouls on the play, there's there's an illegal formation, there's

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an eligible downfield on sixty eight,
and there's illegal touching on sixty eight.

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It doesn't look from the line's perspective, I get it because we're not seventy

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is not going to report because it
just makes the whole play void. It

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doesn't, It doesn't work. There's
seventy reports at sixty eight doesn't. But

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I think in that in that attempt
to kind of disguise it, the referee

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assumed it was seventy. And now
you know, now we're talking about it