Week Sixteen: Pittsburgh Steelers (8-6) @ Detroit Lions (8-6)

[TP_Fan]

3rd and 10, 3rd and 11, 3rd and 10. All completed. Too many men on the field. Bad use of a timeout. The coaching is so incredibly bad.  

[Mr.TaterSalad]

LOL OMG. Peak SOL right here.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

WHAT? THEY CALLED IT AN INCOMPLETE PASS AT FIRST!!!

Edited 6 hours ago by Mr.TaterSalad

[sagnam]

1 minute ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

I can't believe you can slug a fan or potentially use a blunt object as a weapon against a fan and not get ejected all because he refs didn't see it. How can the league not be able to buzz that one down to the officiating crew? They can rule on everything else, even overturn calls and make refs throw flags for plays. But a player can punch a fan use a weapon against a fan, and still be in the game. What a joke.

Dude, things like this will get missed. It was away from the field and when his defense was on the field. Don’t want this stuff to be down to whatever the camera happen to catch.

[Jason_R]

Ugly

[Jason_R]

Pathetic

[TP_Fan]

Can we talk about how bad our coaches are finally?

[ben9753]

That was one of the best catches I’ve ever seen

[holygoat]

There is an absolute SOL stench to this year's Lions.

[number20]

Words fail me

[sagnam]

The timeout wasn’t the issue. Pittsburgh has one left. The issue is that the Lions defense is incapable of making a play. So now the game is tied instead of making one play and being up 10-14.

 

[TP_Fan]

They completed 3 third downs of longer than 10 yards and then score on a 40 yard play with 2 secs left.  You can’t be serious with Shepard as a coach. And Campbell has completely lost the plot on this entire operation.  

[MichiganCardinal]

The irony of calling DPI on a play where they rule him not down by contact is just chef’s kiss to NFL officiating.

[NYLion]

I gotta say it, this season has been very SOL. It was a nice 2 year reprieve but hello darkness again old friend

[Mr.TaterSalad]

1 minute ago, sagnam said:

Dude, things like this will get missed. It was away from the field and when his defense was on the field. Don’t want this stuff to be down to whatever the camera happen to catch.

Punching a fan should be a game misconduct. The league office from New York needs to be able to call that down and have him ejected. You can't put your hands on a fan. It needs to be zero tolerance. You can apparently have a WWE match, punch them, give a Stone Cold Stunner, and a Rock Bottom as long as the refs don't see it. 

[MichiganCardinal]

“The ruling on the field is an incomplete pass.”

”Jk lol touchdown”

[lordstanley]

That drive was the first time in 3 seasons I'll use SOL. Three times it went to 3rd and 10 or longer and a stop would have put the Lions in great position to take a two-score lead into the half. You make a half-assed timeout call which was the worst of both worlds - either call it with 58 seconds to go if you're confident of getting a stop, or let the clock run down to 20 seconds like the Steelers were prepared to do. A completion down the middle would have run the clock down further but too many men stopped the clock. Then Rodgers was just looking FG position and you interfere just poorly enough to get flagged but not well enough to stop the guy. 

[buddha]

To those of you who just became Lions fans, this is what us old folks have endured for the last 50-60 years.

[Motown Bombers]

It's a tied game for christ sakes. You can come back off the ledge. 

[Jason_R]

As my grandfather used to say, “It’s a new low.”

[NYLion]

3 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

“The ruling on the field is an incomplete pass.”

”Jk lol touchdown”

The ref who called incomplete is a moron, it was clearly a catch.

[lordstanley]

Metcalf wll get suspended …shortly after he catches the game winning TD late in the 4th quarter. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Brian Branch was ejected for this. The NFL deemed this as an offense worth ejecting a player over. 

 

Meanwhile, DK Metcalf slugs a fan and the league some how has no protocol in place to do anything about it because the refs didn't see it?

Edited 6 hours ago by Mr.TaterSalad

[Motown Bombers]

1 minute ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Brian Branch was ejected for this. The NFL deemed this as an offense worth ejecting a player over. 

 

Meanwhile, DK Metcalf slugs a fan and the league some how has no procured in place to do anything about it because the refs didn't see it?

Why would the refs be looking behind the Steelers bench while a game is going on?

[KnoxP]

6 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

It's a tied game for christ sakes. You can come back off the ledge. 

Agreed! Gotta get the run game going some.