If there is anything football fans can agree on, it’s that NFL referees don’t see everything and that they certainly are not perfect. While this holds true in many situations, the one area in which impossible to catch every action also happens to be the league’s most lawless – the bottom of a pile.



Some players treat that reality like any other play. Others try to use that situation to their advantage.



The consensus from the Cowboys locker room is that true pileups are not only rare, but they happen far less often than most people realize. Technically, nearly every play results in a “pile” after a tackle is made, but most of those don’t count as a “pileup” because referees are still able to see what players are doing. The pileups that get dirty usually take place on goal-line or short-yardage situations, or runs up the middle that don’t make it very far.



That’s when things get...