4th and inches and the refs

[lockster]

Why was looney playing center instead of biazdiaz?

 

[catiii]

COACH LOST THIS ONE. AGAIN.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Why was looney playing center instead of biazdiaz?

He was hurt in pre game warm-ups.

 

[Hook'em#11]

So do you want to talk about the officiating in the first half, starting off with the clear PI against the Cowboys on 3rd down that would have been a 40 yard gain for Pitt? What about the obvious fde mask when Pitt failed to get the 4th down conversion? What about the 2nd PI on third down that should have been called against Brown? I have more if you’d like to hear them or you can just continue to play the victim.

They let both teams play in the first half.

It wasn't until when it was down to the possibility of a team winning. ( a team with an owner a certain Commish can't stand, don't blame him), when they stopped letting one team play. It's so obvious.

And, please do not respond. I don't need to read or see anymore nonsense. Yesterday was enough.

 

[Creeper]

So do you want to talk about the officiating in the first half, starting off with the clear PI against the Cowboys on 3rd down that would have been a 40 yard gain for Pitt? What about the obvious fde mask when Pitt failed to get the 4th down conversion? What about the 2nd PI on third down that should have been called against Brown? I have more if you’d like to hear them or you can just continue to play the victim.

It is not what they called and didn't call. It is the inconsistency that bothers people. That roughing call on Jaylon Smith was technically the correct call. His hand grazed the facemask as he tried to swat at the pass. You see that all the time in the NFL. Guy swats at ball and misses, then his hand grazes the QBs head. But later TJ Watt speared Gilbert with his helmet as Cam Heyward was sacking him. No call. Either you protect QBs or you don't. Gilbert is as valuable to the Cowboys right now as Ben is to the Steelers. Every QB is valuable to his own team.

The non-PI calls could be a beef, but they didn't call them on either team. The Illegal contact call on Jaylon occurred 6 yards from the LOS. Contact like that occurs on almost every play and you could see the Steelers making contact even farther downfield. Why call it on Jaylon? Because Claypool lost his balance and fell down?

 

[Beastsfromthenfceast]

The big and powerful steelerettes didn't impress me at all. Against a 4th string QB and they needed the refs help to win. Uselessberger is garbage and they're so called great defense was far from great.

 

[aria]

They let both teams play in the first half.

It wasn't until when it was down to the possibility of a team winning. ( a team with an owner a certain Commish can't stand, don't blame him), when they stopped letting one team play. It's so obvious.

And, please do not respond. I don't need to read or see anymore nonsense. Yesterday was enough.

Lol, this is ridiculous. How many PI’s on Pitt did they miss in the first half? There were two, very clear PI’s ON Pitt, that were never called. There was also a critical face mask that wasn’t called. Oh that’s right, points don’t matter in the first half. IMOF, according to some of you, I guess games should only be one quarter long where every penalty counts.

 

[aria]

It is not what they called and didn't call. It is the inconsistency that bothers people. That roughing call on Jaylon Smith was technically the correct call. His hand grazed the facemask as he tried to swat at the pass. You see that all the time in the NFL. Guy swats at ball and misses, then his hand grazes the QBs head. But later TJ Watt speared Gilbert with his helmet as Cam Heyward was sacking him. No call. Either you protect QBs or you don't. Gilbert is as valuable to the Cowboys right now as Ben is to the Steelers. Every QB is valuable to his own team.

The non-PI calls could be a beef, but they didn't call them on either team. The Illegal contact call on Jaylon occurred 6 yards from the LOS. Contact like that occurs on almost every play and you could see the Steelers making contact even farther downfield. Why call it on Jaylon? Because Claypool lost his balance and fell down?

The inconsistency bothers me as well, I can’t stand it. What I’m talking about is people complaining that it only happens to us which is why I actually use the inconsistencies to support that it happens to every team. Remember the Giants game when Slaytons TD was called back for a pick by one of his teammates? If people truly cared about inconsistent officiating they would have admitted that was a horrible call, the Giants should have for the TD and probably would have won. Instead, not a word was said, why?

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

Was going to post but will just chill.

 

[RoboQB]

Pittsburg needed help and the refs gave it to them.

Nothing new here.

The same as last week against the Ravens.
Game on the line. Helmet to helmet hit in the end zone.
No call. Steelers win.

 

[Kaiser]

Not going for it on 4th and inches and the refs is all the recap you need for this one..

The Refs are like baseball umpires, they give the benefit of the doubt every time to a coach like Belichick or an undefeated team like the Steelers. A bunch of calls in this game we can argue, but none were egregious game changers like the Gallup OPI this year or the PI non-call in the Saints-Rams game.

 

[snadler]

The Refs are like baseball umpires, they give the benefit of the doubt every time to a coach like Belichick or an undefeated team like the Steelers. A bunch of calls in this game we can argue, but none were egregious game changers like the Gallup OPI this year or the PI non-call in the Saints-Rams game.

The holding call on Jaylon that was a sack fumble recovery absolutely was a game changer..as was the roughing the passer which would have forced the Steelers to punt..both were game changers, one was the wrong call and one was the right call

 

[OldJarhead]

I blame coaching on this one. The officials are going to miss calls, it's (unfortunately) part of the game. The Cowboys had ample opportunity to put the game further out of the reach of the Stealers (misspelled on purpose). Inside the 10 the Cowboys should have run the ball to eat some clock and in my opinion the run game was starting to produce a bit, instead they run two pass plays with a journeyman QB who had a good week of practice which resulted in a forced error.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

Why was looney playing center instead of biazdiaz?

Biadaz got hurt before the game started......because of course he would in 2020.

 

[Hook'em#11]

Lol, this is ridiculous. How many PI’s on Pitt did they miss in the first half? There were two, very clear PI’s ON Pitt, that were never called. There was also a critical face mask that wasn’t called. Oh that’s right, points don’t matter in the first half. IMOF, according to some of you, I guess games should only be one quarter long where every penalty counts.

Exactly why no need to respond with this moronic nonsense. I don't have the energy or the care to explain.

 

[aria]

Exactly why no need to respond with this moronic nonsense. I don't have the energy or the care to explain.

Because you can’t, nice cop out.

 

[Kaiser]

The holding call on Jaylon that was a sack fumble recovery absolutely was a game changer..as was the roughing the passer which would have forced the Steelers to punt..both were game changers, one was the wrong call and one was the right call

I agree the Steelers receiver flopped but that call of "pinky within a foot of a QB's head" would be called if the QB was any of Brady, Rodgers, etc. Like that idiotic call of Roughing the Passer on Gregory last week when he hit Wentz two inches below the waistline. Those are bias about protecting the QB and not singling out the Cowboys.

I'm just saying those calls were from the normal deference refs give, not from anything more than that. JMO.

 

[SlammedZero]

I'm not really that upset about the 4th and inches. With our Redzone woes, there was no guarantee of a TD anyway. Plus, if that play went sideways and the team got stopped, people would be in here complaining the we didn't take the field goal. I'm fine with them taking the 3 points and hoping that your defense can actually make a stop. Up to that point the defense was actually playing decent, so, I get it.

As for the refs, yes calls get missed both ways, it is the timing that is absolutely infuriating. I swear anytime Dallas has a big play I automatically wait for a flag. It's just funny to me that you can call a ticky-tacky penalty in probably any play during the game but the refs certainly find a reason to do it all the time against Dallas. I'm not a conspiracy theorist with the NFL but sometimes watching these games makes it difficult to believe that they aren't out there tilting games because it sure felt like they were interested in keeping Pitt undefeated.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

I won't talk about the PLETHORA of missed calls and the ticky tack calls they DID make.

Yes...I mean as fans....why should we POUND that subject to DEATH.

Having said that...I did notice a missed holding call on us. Do I get a cookie?

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

I'm also in on the "should have gone for it" board. "4th and inches" is generous. More like 4th and a 1-1/2 inches. Could have been big...felt like surrender.