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(09-17-2018, 02:46 PM)StrictlyBiz Wrote: They're laughable. Go over to the gameday thread from yesterday to see just how pathetic they are. It's a ***** fest about how the refs are in the bag for the Steelers. 


I posed this question to them yesterday and have yet to get a legitimate answer, so I'll do it here. There are some posters in this thread who aren't on that one.

The $64,000 question....
If the refs and the league favor the Steelers, then why with 12:00 left in the game and the Steelers down by 12 and needing two scores, do they penalize them for an illegal formation on a punt that AB returned to midfield? The result was a rekick that was returned only to the Pit 30. That penalty cost the Steelers nearly 20 yards of field position at a critical time of the game. If the refs are indeed trying to help the Steelers, that would be the exact time that they should exercise their influence and not throw the flag. 

If any of you Cincituckians can explain that to me without going into another long and convoluted conspiracy theory, then I will freely admit that you are right and there is a bias for the Steelers. 

There was a call in one of the other games in week one (I can't remember which one) that was so blatantly wrong that I said if the want to control outcomes with calls they need to closer plays to do it on.

But then the other half of me thinks the officials are just bad.  The called a "encroachment" penalty on Pittsburgh yesterday (where they let the play go on...so maybe it was lining up in the neutral zone, who knows) that required the entire group of officials working the game to huddle up and talk for 2 or 3 minutes.

If it takes THAT much work to figure out offsides they need to find other work.