I only complain about officiating because it has been bad all season. The Jets got away with PI against the Browns, Broncos, Lions, and Steelers. They should have lost all of those games, if PI was called when it happened.

The Steelers fans have a legitimate beef over the past few weeks. Ben gets hit late and it the head against the Ravens–no flag. He gets hit 4 steps late and in the head twice against the Bungles–no flag.

And in this game, Revis and Cromartie showed that they are the most average set of corners in the NFL because they can’t cover without cheating and committing PI.

Now, now, there’s no need to get personal.

I guess I touched a nerve. Sorry. Didn’t mean to send you into a psychotic tailspin. Don’t operate any heavy machinery until you calm down, OK?

Also, I have a question: are the playoffs a dance, or are they a battle?

Really? get over yourself and your team, we all know the who has the best record right now in AFC. It is what it is ….lots of regular fans care about who their ‘team’ is playing next – not about other coaches or teams.

Right now I’m looking at Steelers playing Panthers on a short week …that is what I want to know about. Not your coach or whatever. It does seem awfully funny and juvenile that you’re looking for something to argue – or be offended by …it’s Christmas lighten up. We (Steelers) won’t be worried about your team until we play you again hopefully. And no matter how much you want to feel other teams are afraid of you – they’re not.

The playoffs is a whole new dance buddy. Getting in is half the battle. Steeler Fan

Remarkable.

Doesn’t matter anyway. Patriots will be healthy for the playoffs and that means none of you stand a chance.

Love,

Mom.

Officials just seem to have a unconscious predisposition as teams & players. Ravens, Steeler, and Eagle fans can point to a variety of plays where (our) QB’s – Ben, Vick, Flacco ..have been hit illegally YET no calls are made by the refs …late hits, blows to the head, etc.

Instead Manning, Brady, and Brees seem to have a different standard for the Refs ??? why – if any of our teams the hard hitting and nasty D oriented teams like Raven or Steelers hit those QB or similar ‘small’ receivers ….every flag is thrown. It’s really becoming a double standard. Were all going to see more non / bad calls come up in the playoffs because those games we be viewed by a variety of neutral fans ….we can only hope than to see how glaring it is that the refs are just not getting the job done.

Steeler Fan

The Refs were obviously intoxicated. First of all, a drunk can’t walk a straight line and the refs couldn’t see one. They gave us 2 first downs that were obviously NOT first downs. Secondly, a drunk falls asleep at the worst times and the refs HAD to be asleep on the holding on Sanders. Thirdly, the drunks threw 3 flags and then said, “OOPS WE DIDN’T MEAN TO DO THAT” If that aint some drunk shhh…..

I know that we steelers fans have been accused of whining but even a ravens fan, who is a true football fan knows that there were some drunks in strips at this game. If you beg to differ you’re more of a HOMER than you accuse us of being…… DAM DRUNKEN REFS!!

This rant brought to you but IRON CITY BEER…So good, even refs drink it!

Steelers average more then 20 points per game on offense. Look it up before you post.

Like they Steelers even have to worry about all those teams, ATL PHI. There in what is called the NFC. If they wanna play the Steelers, they better go all the way to the superbowl.

Not every team can make the playoffs buddy.
I don’t feel like spelling it out for you, NFL.com has a good “playoff picture” if you need help.

Oh … nevermind.

And I forgot to congratulate our opponents, which is shameful! My apologies to the Jets fans.

No, we didn’t lose the game because of the officiating. In fact, I thought the flags on Flozell and Clark were justified. I’m riled up about bad officiating in general–not saying it cost us our game.

The Jets special-teams play was outstanding. First the kick return. He so completely blew through our coverage he made it look like we only had half our guys on the field. And then their punter pinned us back time and again. The credit for that safety goes to him more than to Taylor (though punters never really get credit for anything).

So a belated congrats to the Jets for playing a terrific road game against a tough team in inclement weather.

Now can we all talk about the need for the league to address inept officiating, which should have happened five years ago? Instead it’s gotten worse.

again edumacating Steeler fans. That is what I said, read Ravens, Steelers and Jets will be the teams in the playoffs were points will be hard to come by BUT YOU STILL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCORE AN OFFENSIVE TD.

Sanchez–you had me fooled on your TD run.

As for Revis, I give the man props for thinking he could fight Flozell The height difference was hysterical.

But after going to sleep bummed out about the loss, I woke up to Mike & Mike telling me we earned a playoff spot, so my Monday is better that it usually is after a loss.

Let the chest thumping begin! Yeah, I know the Patriots snuck by the Packers…

They still put 31 points up in a so so performance.
At least it was kind of fun to watch. Wasn’t like that 9-0 game at the Meadowlands…

J-E-T-S!!! jets, jets, jets……Ryan will be crowing today!

woooooow, angry at all???

Karma as in no good Karma left for the Steelers. Ravens happened to lose several fourth quarter leads, I believe something like 8, not that they lost all these games, but they lost the lead.

The Steelers on the other hand should have lost to the Bills if it was not for a dropped TD catch, to the Ravens who were leading for 55 minutes had it not been for a man playing possesed (great Palomalu), the last game to the Bengals had it not been for the horrendous throws of one C. Palmer and again your great defense. You burned all the good karma on these games. Your offense cannot score 20+ points and that will not be enough.

As for 30 points, even the Ravens score 30 almost every game. Pats, Atltanta, Chargers, Colts, NO ….. will all out score the Steelers.

There will beb three teams in theplayoffs were it will be difficult to score against that is the Ravens, Steelers and Jets but you still have to produce an offensive TD or you are just not going to make it.

However, I should have known better. EVERY team has whining fans that shout from the rooftops. While most fans of the team understand the game, and do not post their complaints online.

The Ravens, Jets and Steelers all have whiner fans. They also have some great fans that bleed their teams colors. Let the best team WIN (except the Patriots).

Complete that pass and you win.

Enough said.

Sanchez made the big plays, the kid took a step forward today.

If you squealer fans wonder why we call you that just look at all the squealing you do when your team loses.

And “Yes” losers always blame the officials. Or in this case squeal about the officials.

wow. i can’t believe you wrote the words i was just going to write. if Arians isnt gone by the end of the year, win/lose in the playoffs, i’ll actually believe he has ties to the Rooneys. seriously…scramble guys, its week 15, bad offensive line, but theres still no short passing game? seriously. rushing mendenhall only 17 times? you can’t put up 17 pts against NE, Colts, ATL, Saints. you just cant. the problem is that no one officially points out the just horrid offensive play, so it goes unnoticed, like William G. being the worst cornerback to ever play the NFL for a good 2 years with the steelers.

somethings have to change, blaming the refs after a atrocious offensive game like that is terrible. and im a die hard steelers fan whose been saying that Arians is awful for a while. Get McDaniels, Chilly, these renown offensive coordinators that aren’t good coaches, but good OCs. you cant even watch their O anymore, its laughable at best

Karma for what??????? You clowns don’t care about criminal justice. If you did, you’d be as annoyed as I am that the Milledgeville sorority sisters weren’t prosecuted. Roethlisberger may be an off-field idiot, but no one deserves to be falsely accused of rape–and the medical exam showed it was a false accusation. Karma would be for that woman and her buddies to pay for the harm they’ve done real rape victims.

With the o-line injuries we’ve suffered, I’m under no illusions that this will be a Super Bowl year for the Steelers. And we lost primarily because of superior play by the Jets special teams. That doesn’t mean officiating isn’t an important issue that desperately needs to be addressed. If you fools could stop playing hater long enough to look at calls in games other than ours, maybe you’d start raising enough ruckus to persuade the league to do the right thing.

Dipsticks.

Secondly, I think we’re seeing, once again, how important Polamalu is to the Steelers’ defense. I’m not talking about pick-sixes or forced fumbles; those are missed, certainly, but he’s also so important to the run defense and also the blitz schemes. I don’t think it’s any coincidence that the Steelers (1) gave up the most rushing yards they’ve allowed all season and (2) failed to record a sack, or, really, any plays at all in pass defense, whether it’s an interception or just a pass breakup. Not saying the Steelers would have won with him in the lineup, but I think the defense clearly missed him.

Thirdly, I will not blame the officiating for the loss. There were bad calls on both sides — the 9-yard first down was particularly horrendous. And I also think the Steelers may have hurt themselves by begging for flags after so many incompletions early in the game. Note to Sanders and Wallace: if a pass was incomplete, it does not automatically mean you were interfered with. Take a lesson from Ward and keep your damn mouth shut. No wonder the officials didn’t want to throw flags on the plays on the final drive; they were tired of your crying.

That being said … there were two blatant interference calls missed on the final drive, first when Sanders was held on the deep ball and second when Cromartie was draped all over him on the final pass. Could a call there have changed the outcome? Sure. Would it have? I have no idea, and neither does any other Steeler fan…so stop your crying, all. Remember what you all said after the Miami game? That “good teams overcome bad calls”? Funny how you don’t seem to remember that now.

Anyway, I was glad to see a good game from Mendenhall and a gutsy performance from Ben, even in a losing effort. Hopefully the Steelers can beat the Panthers and Browns and hang onto that No. 2 seed, because I think they definitely need that bye to get healthy.

Kudos again to the Jets. Maybe we’ll see you again in a few weeks, and next time hopefully the outcome will be different.

The Steelers now managed 2 offensive TDs in 14 quarters of play – certainly not the ifficials fault. Quiet frankly there is no game plan to speak of … what does Arians say to Ben through the head set – go up to the line of scrimmage …. and … scramble????

Have you noticed that most every team you will face in the playoffs score close to 30 points every game? The Steelers will be out in the first round of the playoffs because they cannot score enough.

I have never seen more fans scream and cry about officiating foul play, absolutely pathetic. Steelers have already over achieved this year, you have already won all the games you should have lost, no karma left.

I wish people like you could get over your Steeler hatred long enough to recognize that there’s an officiating problem in the league that has an impact on almost every team.

Did you see the Sunday night pregame show interview with Charles Woodson? Unless you’re a Patriots fan, you should still be as offended by the call on the imaginary “tuck” rule a decade ago as he is. And that had nothing to do with the Steelers. The Raiders were done wrong in that game. As 3yrsnfl points out we were as screwed by the poor officiating in Super Bowl XL as the Seahawks, because they made colossal mistakes and bad calls went against us, too. We still would have won the game, but we’ll have to hear about from whiny Seahawks fans through eternity. And the call I pointed out earlier from the Colts/Jags game had nothing to do with the Steelers.

If you clowns would realize that it’s not all about us and look at the issue objectively, maybe we could all scream loudly enough to be heard. Instead, you’re just going to bleat about the Steelers and Goodell is going to keep running the league into the dirt.

The game is faster than it was 10 years ago. We need the NCAA system of booth officials. The rulebook needs to be simplified. We need more officials on the field, and they need to be better trained. And the league needs an immediate termination rule for coaches like Alosi who are caught blatantly cheating.

Football the only major sport that doesn’t have full-time officials. So what if the NFL only plays five months out of the year? The owners are making billions and should care enough to see that the sport is officiated properly. These officiating crews need to be training together as much as the teams do.