all I see is white touching that ball…..

“I had the ball and only let go because someone was tugging my arm.” Ben, you are so full of shit you got horseflies for braces.

The problem isn’t that – it’s that once touchdown was signaled the refs didn’t check who had the ball just in case. If they had, they’d have found that we had it and that would have been that.

As it was I don’t think the video evidence WAS conclusive, so we got screwed over by replay rules then – the ref had to be sure on the replay to be able to give us the ball. I knew we weren’t getting it back.

But make no mistake – the problem was the refs not doing their jobs once TD was signalled – although to be fair to them you can see why they would think they didn’t have to – I’ve never seen this before.

Just really unlucky all around.

Big Ben definitely had his hands on the ball just like he said. Oh and pigs fly!

smh… bull crap loss. But tomorrow morning we have to have this put behind us. Bengals next week!

i spose if the steelers are the benchmark of the nfl then we do indeed have a very good chance for a postseason appearance

No Ben, the refs confirmed you fumbled it there genius. Steratore couldn’t help but acknowledge that fact. Its what happened afterward. Maybe you 2 need to get you lie straight before taking it public eh?

Pats + Jets: 5-1, Fins: 3-3… Yet our two division losses leaves us down 2.5 games already, and with the AFC North + South fielding some solid teams, a wildcard spot will be very difficult, would also mean AFC East would have 3 playoff teams, which… I dunno, seems unlikely. This blows.

… is that the league says Steratore’s explanation is sufficient. That’s ignoring the bigger picture. His explanation of the review might be correct, but it doesn’t resolve the issue of officials rushing calls on the field rather than letting plays play out fully and then using replay as a fall back. You blow your whistle too early and give up on a play like this and you eliminate an awful lot of replay’s effectiveness.

At least this time they reversed the TD call, but my God wtf are these refs watching and why are they always so excited to call TD?

however, it was the correct call by the replay team. yes, in all likelihood we recovered the fumble, but as i watched the play, i was not 100% sure we recovered it, and the ref needs to be 100% positive to overturn it, so what he did was right.

However, the ref who originally called it a touchdown is a complete moron and cost us the game.

fumbles in the first.

we then lost the game a final time with horrible clock management. why call a time out on the steelers field goal attempt. why run the ball on first down of our final drive. why rush 2nd down with the 2 minute warning impending. come on sparano you’re better than that

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