It is always dangerous thinking to go back through a game and blame a loss on just one play. There are 60 minutes played, and the team that wins, more often than not, outplays the team that loses. There are several individual plays that can be pointed to in the Pittsburgh Steelers’ loss to the Indianapolis Colts, which proves my exact points above. But there is no denying that the highly questionable unnecessary roughness penalty on Minkah Fitzpatrick changed the flow of the game late in the third quarter.
Rookie WR Adonai Mitchell pulled up for a pass he probably wasn’t going to be able to catch, and Fitzpatrick flew in to deliver a hit.