Audio from Lions – Cowboys shows referee announced No. 70 Dan Skipper, not Taylor Decker, as an eligible receiver

Before we go on here, let me say it out loud: I’m NOT giving referee Brad Allen a pass here for what happened at the end of the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys game on Saturday.

Video shows that Taylor Decker had some kind of conversation with Allen right before the Lions ran the two-point conversion that led to Decker catching a pass, but being whistled for illegal touching and negating what could have been the game-winning play.

But it was after that conversation in which Decker claimed he, not No. 70 Dan Skipper, had declared himself eligible as a receiver that Allen announced — as he’s supposed to — over the loudspeakers that No. 70 is eligible.

Here’s the audio:

Should the Lions have done something with this if they had indeed heard it? Again, it feels like Decker did what he was supposed to do but Skipper — running in from the sidelines — was the one declared eligible, and maybe there was no time to correct what might have been Allen’s error.