Jeff Triplette explains non-challenge decision

Official Jeff Triplette was made available to a pool reporter after the game about the decision to not allow the Cowboys to challenge a fumble after a Tony Romo sack and apparent Felix Jones' recovery. "Dallas was challenging that their player had recovered the football loose in the field of play and was down by contact," Triplette said. "My mistake. That's not a reviewable aspect of a play. A recovery of a loose ball in the field of play is not reviewable by rule so we just couldn't review it." Triplette said that has been the rule since replay returned a few years ago. He actually never got "under the hood" to check the play either. "I got over to the review and we started talking about it with my replay guys that I'm not sure we can review this," Triplette said. "It starts going through your mind, 'I'm not sure we can review this.' And then I started thinkin about the rule, you can't review a recover...