There has been a lot of litigation of the Steelers last two games. First, a slew of strange calls tainted the win over the Bears two weeks ago; then ugly play and questionable choices created a tie against Detroit this past week. I don’t have anything to add to the Lions game, but I’ve been thinking about officiating after the Chicago contest last Monday.
In particular, everyone seems obsessed with Cassius Marsh’s taunting penalty (Peter King simply can’t stop writing about it, for example. It’s getting annoying). In the end, I suppose I fall into the Dan Patrick school of thought, who said last week that taunting may be a dumb rule, but it was correctly applied.