Steelers vs. Patriots** game thread

Nice job by the D! Time for the offense to step up.

Need some points this drive.

Now we kill the clock on our way to a score. Field goal should do it. DuPree finally showed us something.

Offense didn’t get it done in the 4th quarter...

Now the officials are gonna hand them the game. Illegal block in the back on the punt but no call. They scored a running TD and Davis was held. No call. AV had an identical play and they called holding on him. This game should not be this close.

THAT WAS A FUCKING CATCH! FUCK THE NFL

UNFUCKING BELEIVABLE.

That was a catch. The league is so rigged for NE it’s criminal.

THE FIX IS IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the most controversial officiating team in the NFL. I don't know if I want to watch football anymore. This game was fixed and you'll never convince me otherwise.

I am so goddamn sick of NE getting everything their way. Tuck rule? Check. Beneficiary of the stupidest play call of all time? Check. Beneficiary of the greatest choke job ever? Check. And now this. We need to appeal this. I don't care how bitter it makes us look. Fuck NE and fuck Brady and fuck Belichick but most of all fuck their asshole fans who didn't know what a football was until 2001.

He broke the plane of the goal with the ball, bad.call

Catches the ball, possesses it, breaks the plane. That's a motherfucking touchdown. They just gave the Patsies a fucking win. Just gift wrapped it and gave it to them.

IowaSteeler927 wrote:

Catches the ball, possesses it, breaks the plane. That's a motherfucking touchdown. They just gave the Patsies a fucking win. Just gift wrapped it and gave it to them.

What pisses me off is that NE fans have the nerve to think the league is rigged against them. GOAT my butt. Brady and Belichick are both frauds and you'll never convince me other wise.

The only small silver lining I see is we're going to be motivated for revenge the next time we play them but we have to get there first and we'll likely be playing on their turf. You just hate to lose a game like that. I honestly haven't felt that sick in a long time.

Seriously thinking about walking away from football after watching the refs hand that game to the Patriots*... simply unreal.

This doesn't happen often, but I'm speechless.

IowaSteeler927 wrote:

Catches the ball, possesses it, breaks the plane. That's a motherfucking touchdown. They just gave the Patsies a fucking win. Just gift wrapped it and gave it to them.

The fix was in

For what it's worth what I saw means we can go toe to toe with them, last couple of seasons its been like we've been chasing them. However for all we've caught up with them (IMO) Jacksonville have came up on the rail to be a third go in the conference.

It just feels so fixed. I'm sorry but NE gets that great comeback last year? They benefit from Carroll's stupid call a few years ago? I'm not a conspiracy theorist but man I just wonder sometimes the way these guys always seem to pull rabbits out of their asses. They look like they're down and then there they are in the end. And I'm sorry but Brady needs to be tested the way James Harrison was. No 40 year old QB should be playing that way.

Geordie wrote:

For what it's worth  what I saw means we can go toe to toe with them, last couple of seasons its been like we've been chasing them. However for all we've caught up with them (IMO) Jacksonville have came up on the rail to be a third go in the conference.

That is a silver lining for sure and I have to admit my fear was if we beat them today, they'd be that much tougher the next time but you don't take anything for granted and as fan you want to win every game. I'm not mad at anyone on the team at all. They played hard.

IowaSteeler927 wrote:

Catches the ball, possesses it, breaks the plane. That's a motherfucking touchdown. They just gave the Patsies a fucking win. Just gift wrapped it and gave it to them.

This is what confuses me, he broke the plane. Not sure how that works. Kind of has that troy interception call back in 06 feel to it. That hurt but we still have the playoffs to look forward to. Go Steelers.

AB has a partially torn calf. He'll be back for the Playoffs. That's good news. We should definitely get a bye.

I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl, but I think the ruling was correct based on the rules. From Mike Pereira, former VP of officiating ..

Look, here is the rule. If you’re going to the ground you have to hold onto the ball when the ball hits the ground…Going to the ground trumps lunging/reaching to try and get extra yards or score a TD. You do that at your own risk. It’s incomplete…just ask Dez

— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) December 18, 2017

Wallace108 wrote:

I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl, but I think the ruling was correct based on the rules. From Mike Pereira, former VP of officiating ..

Look, here is the rule. If you’re going to the ground you have to hold onto the ball when the ball hits the ground…Going to the ground trumps lunging/reaching to try and get extra yards or score a TD. You do that at your own risk. It’s incomplete…just ask Dez

— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) December 18, 2017

May well be right but that rule needs to be changed. And I hate to be that guy but if that was Gronk, they would have given it to him.

BnGcanuck wrote:

IowaSteeler927 wrote:

Catches the ball, possesses it, breaks the plane. That's a motherfucking touchdown. They just gave the Patsies a fucking win. Just gift wrapped it and gave it to them.

This is what confuses me, he broke the plane. Not sure how that works. Kind of has that troy interception call back in 06 feel to it. That hurt but we still have the playoffs to look forward to. Go Steelers.

Explanation from Periera ...

People are saying a runner breaking the plane causes the ball to become dead…which is true. BUT the receiver does not become a runner until he completes the process of the catch. TOTALLY DIFFERENT

— Mike Pereira (@MikePereira) December 18, 2017