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00:02 - Mark, we'll move down the list here
00:05 and talk Pittsburgh, the Steelers,
00:07 versus the LA Rams as the Steelers went on the road
00:11 most of the way across the country
00:13 and win this game 24 to 17.
00:17 They did so as three and a half point underdogs.
00:20 The Rams lose this game.
00:22 They actually took money.
00:23 It was minus three, close three and a half.
00:27 43 and a half was the total.
00:29 So the game stays just under.
00:31 Steelers win outright as the dog.
00:34 What'd you take away from Southern California on Sunday?
00:37 - Steelers have the most farce forward
00:40 to record in the league.
00:41 It's not a good football team at all
00:43 by any stretch of the imagination.
00:45 And what happened in that game in the fourth quarter
00:48 was one of the more gross officiating things
00:51 that I can remember.
00:52 And it's just an absolute crime
00:57 that the NFL refuses to address this stuff.
01:00 I don't know how college football gets it
01:02 so right every week.
01:04 I wanna watch the NFL get it so wrong every week.
01:08 Kenny Pickett did not get that first down.
01:11 Kenny Pickett did not even come close
01:13 to getting that first down.
01:14 And I get it.
01:15 Sean McVay used his timeouts,
01:16 didn't have one to do a challenge outside of two minutes.
01:19 I understand that.
01:20 That's not the issue.
01:22 Clearly within three seconds of the play,
01:24 we got multiple views of Kenny Pickett's knee
01:26 going down way short of the mark.
01:29 And nobody from New York decides to go,
01:31 "Hey, guess what?
01:33 "You guys missed that.
01:34 "We see it here in the command center.
01:36 "You need to go fix that and get it right."
01:39 And he didn't convert on the fourth down.
01:41 It's the Rams ball.
01:43 I mean, yes, you can say,
01:44 "Well, the Rams minus three."
01:45 Damn right I was.
01:46 That's not the issue.
01:48 Because even if they convert it,
01:49 there's no guarantee that the Rams
01:51 go down the field and score a touchdown.
01:52 And then go ahead and win it and cover in overtime.
01:55 None of that is guaranteed.
01:56 So that has nothing to do with this.
01:57 It has everything to do with that
01:58 everybody who watched that game in America
02:00 saw Kenny Pickett's knee fall short of the line,
02:02 and the ball land short of the line,
02:04 and the official missed it,
02:05 and nobody bothered to correct it.
02:07 And the idea that a booth review
02:09 at a critical moment in the game wasn't warranted there
02:12 is also rather disgusting by the NFL.
02:14 And they don't care, and they don't have to fix it.
02:17 You wanna know why they don't have to fix it?
02:18 Because every single one of us
02:19 will tune in and watch next week.
02:21 And that's our problem.
02:22 It does not matter how bad the officiating is.
02:25 We will show up and watch next week.
02:27 We'll show up and watch the following week.
02:29 We'll show up and watch the next season,
02:30 and the season after that, for time infinitum.
02:34 I don't know what to tell you.
02:36 The NFL is grossly wrong for not correcting these calls
02:40 all the time and getting it right.
02:43 I don't care if the officials' feelings are hurt.
02:45 I don't care if it's a bad look.
02:47 All I care about is getting the damn call right,
02:50 getting the game closely officiated to perfect as possible.
02:54 It's just wrong.
02:55 It's flat out wrong that nobody bothered,
02:58 that even the official on the field went,
02:59 "You know, there might be a view here we need to see.
03:02 "Let's just go take a look at this thing."
03:05 And how somebody above, where the official scorebox is,
03:08 that's allowed them to send a note down and say,
03:10 "Let's take a review of this."
03:11 Didn't bother to do it.
03:12 It's just gross negligence.
03:14 It's disgusting.
03:15 It's bad for the league.
03:17 They don't care because it's a billion, billion,
03:19 billion dollar industry who does whatever the hell they want.
03:22 And damn be you as a fan,
03:23 certainly damn be you as a better,
03:25 if there is an issue with it.
03:27 That's what I took away from this game.
03:29 (upbeat music)
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