Lions social team makes joke of penalty by mixing up OL Taylor Decker, Dan Skipper

Whatever the Detroit Lions social media team is being paid, it’s simply not enough.

As Taylor Decker walked into Ford Field on Sunday, the social team highlighted him “reporting” for duty.

Except … that it wasn’t Decker walking into the facility. It was fellow offensive lineman Dan Skipper.

And Decker made sure the social team was aware of the mix up.

Oopsie!

The Lions social team “corrected” itself and posted an actual video of Decker walking in.

For those not in the know, this was all one poke at what happened in the final moments of the Lions’ 20-19 loss to the Dallas Cowboys a week ago.

Decker reported as an eligible receiver and caught the two-point conversion to give Detroit a 21-20 lead over the Cowboys with less than a minute in the game.

Not so fast, said the officials!

They ruled that Decker — No. 68 — was an ineligible receiver, and that No. 70, Dan Skipper, had reported as eligible.

Detroit Lions offensive tackle Taylor Decker (68) warms up before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Tyler Kaufman)

Skipper said he didn’t say a word to the officials when walking on the field, and Lions head coach Dan Campbell was irate with the mix up, because the team had been practicing the play all week. And all week, Decker was the one who reported and caught the ball, just as the play was executed in the game.

“All I really wanna say on it … I did exactly what coach told me to do,” Decker said via The Detroit News. “I went to the ref, said report. … I did what I was told to do, did how we did it in practice all week.”

Video from the game, showed that it was Decker, not Skipper, who approached the official, who then told the Dallas defense about him reporting.

“The explanation was seventy reported,” Campbell said. “Two people can’t report. I don’t want to talk about it, alright. I explained everything, pregame, to a T. Seventy reported, sixty-eight didn’t, we threw it to sixty-eight, that was the…

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Publish date : 2024-01-07 17:56:22

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