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Mitchell's penalty on shazier's pick. Gif in link

Yah I seen the replay and that was a terrible penalty. How can they call that.
 
I thought that when I saw the replay and TIVO'd it several times. He was following thru a tackle. At the time, I thought it was the refs trying to prevent the game from becoming a blowout.
 
The ref definitely messed that up. Glad it didnt cost us the game
 
By the letter of the law it was correct, Shazier had the ball when he hit Reid, so it's blocking in the back, even though I agree he was in the middle of making a tackle
 
I see what you mean. My initial beef was the spot of the next play. He intercepted the ball at the 39 and the next play should have been 29 worst. 10 yards. I think they started near the 20. In a related story I'm coaching my 11 year old. First game last Sunday he is playing DB and we are actually called the Steelers (f'n eh) he scores on a pick six for our first td. Called back on illegal block. I almost went Charles Chevarila.
 
Reminds me of a play the team I was coaching had about 25 years ago. The other team's TE caught the ball. Big Mofo, hard to bring down, but the safety hits him hard from behind, wraps him up, and in doing so knocks the ball out. The ball is on the ground and the LB coming back dives on it. The TE was trying to recover his own fumble, but was wrapped up by the safety in the tackle and being pulled back and down to the ground. The Ref called defensive holding and gave the ball back to them, apologetically explaining his reasons to me. I said - that's okay - we're going to win by 5 scores anyway. And we did. Players forgot about the play and got on with the next one.
 
That said, I think the rule should be that you can legally hold (tackle) the player that either dropped the ball or was going to get the ball if it hadn't been intercepted.
 
coryea said:
By the letter of the law it was correct, Shazier had the ball when he hit Reid, so it's blocking in the back, even though I agree he was in the middle of making a tackle
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This.

It was unintentional, but a penalty non-the-less.
 
Although that was a bad call, I thought the officiating for the game was pretty good. Better than normal. Except for when they let AB get blatantly tackled way out of bounds with no flag. Those are the only two plays that stood out to me.
 
oicu8ad said:
Although that was a bad call, I thought the officiating for the game was pretty good. Better than normal. Except for when they let AB get blatantly tackled way out of bounds with no flag. Those are the only two plays that stood out to me.
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The Brown catch and subsequent fumble that wasn't, was iffy to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy we were on the other side of it, but I think I'd be pissed off if the steelers defense forced that and we didn't get the ball. Even now, I don't know how that wasn't a catch. Brown was turning up the field and coughed it up. Oh well.
 
oicu8ad said:
Although that was a bad call, I thought the officiating for the game was pretty good. Better than normal. Except for when they let AB get blatantly tackled way out of bounds with no flag. Those are the only two plays that stood out to me.
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Agreed. The officiating was pretty good. The refs did not flag the Steelers when they tossed the Skins running back to the ground after the whistle blew. That was on 2nd and very long, would have resulted in a Skins 1st down, and instead they punted after the next play.

The non-call was the right call.
 
SteelerSask said:
I see what you mean. My initial beef was the spot of the next play. He intercepted the ball at the 39 and the next play should have been 29 worst. 10 yards. I think they started near the 20.
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It's 10 yards from the spot of the foul, not the interception.
 
I agree, the officiating was fairly good. Outside of a couple calls our way and a couple their way, all was good. If the next fifteen games of ours are officiated in this respect, I'll take it.




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I personally don't think you call it, but I can see why the officials did.
 
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