The Steelers scored 17 points. The fact is that 14 of the 17 points came only due to blown calls. That was not a fumble. And Washington's knee hit before the toe.
But even if we say the Washington play was too close to call, they should have never been in that position to start. Rudolph threw an interception. It was a dead fucking duck after he got hit. The refs flagged Ramsey for pass interference 15 yards away from where the ball was caught. A ball has to be catchable for that WR to be DPI. Johnson was nowhere near the ball and running in the wrong direction.
It was clear that the refs were intentionally calling a lopsided game. Nothing made that more clear than Reynolds getting the most blatant pass interference of the night on 4th down without the refs calling it. They called ticky tack bullshit multiple times on Ramsey, and then they let that shit go because "it's 4th down." Fuck the NFL. Fuck this bullshit. If there's anything that will drive me to quit watching this sport, it's the officiating.
I was yelling at my tv like everyone else, but I’m a biased ram fan. It was very close but in this case you can go frame by frame because you can see the knee and the toe at the same time. Well that didn’t really happen it was slowed way down but I thought there should’ve been a shot that showed the knee down and the toe not or vice versa. I may be a crazy ram fan but if it’s staring me in the face I’ll accept it, like the Rudolf incomplete pass. He started his forward motion and changed his mind, incomplete.
I’m surprised there wasn’t more talk about the Goff fumble, that’s another one I thought was pretty clear. The arm was going forward, the ball went forward, incomplete.
I asked my buddy, who’s a steeler fan, what the difference between the Reynolds non interference and the other flags that had been thrown for pi and he had no answer. That being said Reynolds has to make sure a flag gets thrown there, the db has no idea where the ball is, he needs to play through the db or try to high point the ball. Of course all this stuff is easy in hindsight but isn’t this supposed to be Reynolds niche? Tall guy, large catch radius, he’s been in this position several times without success.
There are plenty of other needs on this team right now but do we need to start looking at receiver? Who knows what Cooks long term situation is and there doesn’t seem to be a good option in these short yardage situations.
