Again, since the NFL forces you to click through to YouTube so they can monetize their highlights, I can only give you this link and let you click through yourself. If the video stays up, I will give you kind of a walkthrough:
(0:00) Illegal Hands to the Face, #91 CHI: That's nice. He was only NOWHERE NEAR THE PLAY. If there was a mistell on that, fine, but that was just an indication of what was to come...
(0:19) False Start, #71 CHI: Blatant False Start, and the Chicago line had problems with this the entire night!
(0:40) Altercation, #90 CHI and #53 PIT. Called correctly, but you do have to wonder if there was a case to actually throw #90 CHI out of the game.
(1:41) CHI correctly caught, 12 on the field.
(2:01) Fitzpatrick hit on Fields: Nope, that's 15 on Fitzpatrick -- look at the replay at 2:31 -- principal point of contact to the head. That's TWO.
(2:35) Holding, #69, PIT: No replay shown.
(2:50) Ineligible Downfield, #67 CHI: That's right -- he's not engaged with the defender, and the rollout by Fields allows him to be 3-4 yards downfield, and that's a penalty.
(3:33) Fourth and 1, CHI, down 14-0 at their own 46. Offside on PIT by two guys, first down. Again correct.
(3:53) False start, CHI: Little quick on the highlight there, Highlight Heaven. Especially because, as was obviously shown, it's way too loud in the stadium to hear anything...
(4:11) One of the ones a lot of people are talking about, #68 CHI Chop Block/Low Block negates a CHI TD. That's a new rule this year -- and the third replay MNF showed last night was wrong -- it had the tackle box at least a yard too wide. The call is correct, even if he misses the block -- he clearly goes low where it is NOT legal to do so.
(5:04) Next play: Late slide negates protection call by Fields: I'm actually somewhat surprised this call was called correctly, but you have a window in which to slide and Fields was clearly late.
(5:47) NEXT PLAY after that: RTP no-call on #56 PIT. I'm actually genuinely surprised that, somewhere in this equation, Matt Nagy didn't get a UC on him. He wanted at least one penalty on that sequence, and should've gotten this one. The NFL has been calling all unnecessary contact after the ball is out of the QB's hands as RTP -- and that should've been called.
(6:20) DPI on #33 CHI: Completely ignoring, of course, that #18 PIT pushes off to gain position. And if that's a flag on #33 CHI, that's a flag pretty much straight off the line, not after the pass falls incomplete. (And probably not for DPI -- hands to the face, holding, etc.)
(6:57) Two plays later, Offside #58 CHI: HOW?? Unless the situation was that poorly cut by the guy making the video -- #58 Chicago was actually off the line, timed the snap, and had the QB sack. That is, of course, unless the league is openly rigging the game by this point for Pittsburgh...
(7:23) RTP Clay Matthews Rule No-Call #59 CHI/Taunting-Contact With Official Controversy: The video also misses what I believe is the beginning of the Fantastic Finish (tm) Phase, where Chicago gets a touchdown on a fumbled punt return. The problem with that call is that the only way you can rule that the PIT receiver does not have possession is to basically say that no "trap against/between the legs" or "trap against the defender's back" call is a catch anymore.
Then, you get this call, a clear "weight on QB" Clay Matthews Rule RTP, not called. Why? To set up the Fantastic Finish. (tm)
So is that "Taunting Call" which comes afterward a blatant Make-Up Call, on top of it not being Taunting???
You know what?? Yeah, I can actually see Taunting there.-- watch the replay at 8:53. It's clear he's at least staring at the Pittsburgh bench, if not saying anything. So under "Shut The Fuck Up And Get Back In The Huddle", yeah, I could see a Taunting call there.
The problem is, the way this all executes, how in the fuck is that a Taunting call in practice? As #59 CHI heads back to his side of the field, Corrente hip checks him, and THEN throws the flag. It's almost as if Corrente is drawing the contact there... So he has to default to Taunting, or else he forces himself to eject #59 CHI for Contact With An Official -- which, unfortunately, probably would then have been the correct call if Corrente didn't have to make one up (and don't tell me, Corrente, you had the penalty coming and was getting the flag -- we could see you didn't in the damn replay!!!).
So if you didn't fuck up the call, you clearly fucked up the optics, because, to me, I can't think that would've been a call if you don't bump him first!
To me, if you're gonna do that, you've got 45 yards on the guy: 15 for RTP live, 15 for Taunting after the play, 15 and a toss for Contact With An Official. If you're gonna call one penalty there, you call THREE!! And they're ALL enforced.
(9:12) Holding #65 PIT. Correct, but was there an offsetting RTP on #98 CHI for Weight on QB?
(9:39) Encroachment on half the Steelers on the tiebreaking extra point.
(10:28) Offside, #94 CHI: Lined up in the Neutral Zone. Then taken down, much akin to the call back at 9:12, that not being called.
(11:02) Next play: Offside, #99 CHI: Also correctly called for Lining Up in the Neutral Zone. Makes you begin to wonder when the Bears got wind of the script and played along.
(11:44) False Start, #65 PIT: Unless that was a hand or the like, I didn't see much of a flinch. That said, listen to the announcers and don't think they don't see that this game is on the take, at least with respect to the officiating -- "And this would really be a story if it were on Pittsburgh..."
(12:00) "And of course there's a flag on the field." It's at this point you even figure out the MNF crew has at least figured out the game is being fixed for, at the least, The Fantastic Finish (tm), ignoring that the game is ALSO being fixed for a result. The call is Illegal Contact on PIT, but they don't tell you on who!
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Just, if you are so inclined, take a good 15 minutes and watch this shit.
I've got at least six major calls or no-calls benefiting Pittsburgh in the game, two on hits to the Chicago quarterback. And then anything which basically benefited Chicago was just to set up the Fantastic Finish (tm) the NFL has been trying to paper over the shit football being played with...
How anyone can still believe there are no agendas, fixes, etc. in this league is beyond any semblance of my comprehension -- and frankly is encroaching on insult to my intelligence!
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Later Edit To Add, I missed one:
TJ Watt was offside on the FG miss at the end there, Lined Up In The Neutral Zone...
Got the All-22 look here on Cairo Santos’ 65-yard miss.
— Adam Jahns (@adamjahns) November 9, 2021
Look at T.J. Watt’s helmet … https://t.co/KBoTm0Jzff pic.twitter.com/NbKOtmrmdq
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