12-08-2017, 05:57 PM
(12-08-2017, 04:59 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Welll...one way is to hold onto a 17-0 lead for one.
Favorable calls aside, how many passes did Green and Lafell drop? How many wide open Steelers WR's were there? How many Bengals did Bell truck?
Officiating isn't the reason the Steelers own us. Poor play by the Bengals is.
For the most part I agree, but we got hosed by the refs in this last game. We set a franchise record for penalties and penalty yards in this game. A league high this year. Coincidence that it happened when we were blowing the Steelers out? Meh... Add in that ticky tack holding on Gio that cost us a TD? Seems obvious. Heck, the announcers were ripping the officiating and that's fairly rare.
Some of these games just remind me of the Steelers SB against the Seahawks.
I do agree that our own ineptitude has cost us more often than officiating though.
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